The Albert Einstein Collection Volume Two: Essays in Science, Letters to Solovine, and Letters on Wave Mechanics

Abstract

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Essays in Science -- Title Page -- Preface to the New Edition -- Preface to Abridged Edition -- Publisher's Note -- Translator's Note -- Principles of Research -- Inaugural Address to the Prussian Academy of Sciences -- On Scientific Truth -- On the Method of Theoretical Physics -- Johannes Kepler -- The Mechanics of Newton and Their Influence on the Development of Theoretical Physics -- Clerk Maxwell's Influence on the Evolution of the Idea of Physical Reality -- Niels Bohr -- On the Theory of Relativity -- What Is the Theory of Relativity? -- The Problem of Space, Ether, and the Field in Physics -- Notes on the Origin of the General Theory of Relativity -- The Cause of the Formation of Meanders in the Courses of Rivers and of the So-Called Beer's Law -- The Flettner Ship -- Relativity and the Ether -- Address at Columbia University -- Letters to Solovine -- Title Page -- Preface by Neil Berger -- Introduction by Maurice Solovine -- "I often think of …" -- "I have again moved …" -- "I offer my heartfelt …" -- "Your apologies, though very …" -- "I was elated over …" -- "I am very glad …" -- "I am very glad to …" -- "The contents and method …" -- "A further characteristic of …" -- "Against the concept of …" -- "Thank you for the …" -- "I am not eager …" -- "I am returning the …" -- "Many thanks for the …" -- "Much work and the …" -- "How glad I will …" -- "I expect to arrive …" -- "Hearty thanks for having …" -- "Included herewith are the …" -- "It was wonderful in …" -- "You do not have …" -- "You will receive by …" -- "Today I am giving …" -- "I have looked everywhere …" -- "I needed some time …" -- "My field theory is …" -- "Herewith the contract with …" -- "You impatient scoundrel!" -- "By the end of …" -- "I am firmly convinced …" -- "I could not manage …" -- "Nothing again concerning the …".