right smart back before computers and e - readers there were these lovely things call books , and one of the best ways to bespeak that a book was your book and not someone else ’s Holy Writ was to stamp it with a decorative recording label commonly known as an ex libris ( Latin for “ from the book of … ” ) , followed by your name .
Albert Einstein ’s ex libris is reportedly based on a doodle he drew up ( plausibly in the margins of a composition account the photoelectric consequence , or something ) , andaccording to Ron Miller below , was designed by German painter Erich Büttner circa 1917 . It render a solitary stargazer , perched atop a raft with arms scatter wide , sop in the celestial dreamscape that is the Universe . It is , in a word , awesome . distinctive Einstein .
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