Informação recebida sobre os Digital Einstein papers:
THE DIGITAL EINSTEIN PAPERS
is a publicly available
website of the collected and translated papers of Albert Einstein that
allows readers to explore the writings of the world’s most famous
scientist as never before.
Princeton, NJ – December 5, 2014 –
Princeton University Press, in partnership with Tizra, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, and California Institute of Technology,
announces the launch of
THE DIGITAL EINSTEIN PAPERS (http://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu).
This unique, authoritative resource provides full public access to the
translated and annotated writings of the most influential
scientist of the twentieth century: Albert Einstein.
“Princeton University
Press has a long history of publishing books by and about Albert
Einstein, including the incredible work found in
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein,” said Peter Dougherty,
director of Princeton University Press. “We are delighted to make these
texts openly available to a global audience of researchers, scientists,
historians, and students keen to learn more
about Albert Einstein. This project not only furthers the mission of
the press to publish works that contribute to discussions that have the
power to change our world, but also illustrates our commitment to
pursuing excellence in all forms of publishing—print
and digital.”
THE DIGITAL EINSTEIN PAPERS website presents the complete contents of
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, and, upon its launch, the website—http://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu—will
contain 5,000 documents covering the first forty-four years of
Einstein’s
life, up to and including the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics and
his long voyage to the Far East. Additional material will be available
on the website approximately eighteen months after the print publication
of new volumes of
The Collected Papers. Eventually, the website will provide access
to all of Einstein’s writings and correspondence, accompanied by
scholarly annotation and apparatus.
What sorts of gems will users discover in
THE DIGITAL EINSTEIN PAPERS? According to Diana L.
Kormos-Buchwald, director of the Einstein Papers Project, “This material
has been carefully researched and annotated over the last twenty-five
years and contains all of Einstein’s scientific and popular
writings, drafts, lecture notes, and diaries, and his professional and
personal correspondence up to his forty-fourth birthday—so users will
discover major scientific articles on the general theory of relativity,
gravitation, and quantum theory alongside his
love letters to his first wife, correspondence with his children, and
his intense exchanges with other notable scientists, philosophers,
mathematicians, and political personalities of the early twentieth
century.”
Buchwald also noted that THE DIGITAL EINSTEIN PAPERS
will introduce current and future generations to important ideas and
moments in history, saying, “It is exciting to think that thanks to the
careful application
of new technology, this work will now reach a much broader audience and
stand as the authoritative digital source for Einstein’s written
legacy.”
THE DIGITAL EINSTEIN PAPERS
enables readers to experience the writings of Albert Einstein in
unprecedented ways. Advance search technology improves discoverability
by allowing users to perform keyword searches
across volumes of Einstein’s writing and, with a single click, navigate
between the original languages in which the texts were written and
their English translations. Further exploration is encouraged by
extensive explanatory footnotes, introductory essays,
and links to the Einstein Archives Online, where there are thousands of
high-quality digital images of Einstein’s writings.
The Tizra platform was
selected for this project, according to Kenneth Reed, manager of digital
production for Princeton University Press, because of its highly
flexible, open, and intuitive content delivery approach,
and its strong reputation for reliability. Equally important was
creating a user-friendly reading experience.
“One of the reasons we
chose Tizra is that we wanted to preserve the look and feel of the
volumes,” said Reed. “You’ll see the pages as they appear in the print
volumes, with added functionality such as linking
between the documentary edition and translation, as well as linking to the Einstein Archives Online, and the ability to search across all the volumes in English and German.”
THE DIGITAL EINSTEIN PAPERS
is an unprecedented scholarly collaboration that highlights what is
possible when technology, important content, and a commitment to global
scholarly communication are brought
together. We hope you will join us in celebrating this achievement and
invite you to explore Einstein’s writings with the links below.
Work on
THE DIGITAL EINSTEIN PAPERS was supported by the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. endowment, the California Institute of Technology, the National
Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Arcadia Fund, U.K.
A Sampling of Documents Found in THE DIGITAL EINSTEIN PAPERS
“My Projects for the Future” — In this high school French essay, a seventeen-year-old Einstein describes his future plans, writing that “young
people especially like to contemplate bold projects.”
Letter to Mileva Marić — The first volume of
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein revealed that the young
Einstein had fathered an illegitimate daughter. In this letter to his
sweetheart and future wife, Einstein, age twenty-two, expresses his
happiness at the birth of his daughter Lieserl,
and asks about her health and feeding.
Einstein’s first job offer
— Einstein graduated from university in 1900, but had great difficulty
finding academic employment. He received this
notice of his appointment as a technical clerk at the Swiss Patent
Office in June 1902 and would later describe his time there as happy and
productive.
“On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” — Einstein’s 1905 paper on the special theory of relativity is a landmark in the development of modern
physics.
“On a Heuristic Point of View Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light” — Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics for this paper
on the hypothesis of energy quanta.
The telegram informing that Einstein he has won the Nobel Prize
— Einstein was traveling in the Far East when he officially learned via
telegram
that he had been awarded the prize. However, he had long been expecting
the prize, as evidenced by a clause regarding its disposition in a
preliminary
divorce agreement from Mileva in 1918.
“The Field Equations of Gravitation” — Einstein spent a decade developing the general theory of relativity and published this article in late
1915.
To his mother Pauline Einstein — Einstein writes to his ailing mother to share the happy news that his prediction
of gravitational light bending was confirmed by a British eclipse expedition in 1919.
To Heinrich Zangger, on the mercurial nature of fame — Having been propelled to world fame, Einstein writes to his friend about the difficulties
of being “worshipped today, scorned or even crucified tomorrow.”
To Max Planck, on receiving credible death threats — Einstein writes that he cannot attend the Scientist’s Convention in Berlin because he is
“supposedly among the group of persons being targeted by nationalist assassins.”
Four Lectures on the Theory of Relativity, held at Princeton University in May 1921 — On his first trip to the United States, Einstein famously
delivered these lectures on the theory of relativity.
About The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein is
one of the most ambitious publishing ventures ever undertaken in the
documentation of the history of science. Selected from among more than
40,000 documents contained in Einstein’s personal
collection, and 15,000 Einstein and Einstein-related documents
discovered by the editors since the beginning of the Einstein Project,
The Collected Papers provides the first complete picture of a
massive written legacy. When completed, the series will contain more
than 14,000 documents as full text and will fill thirty volumes. The
volumes are published by
Princeton University Press, sponsored by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and supported by the
California Institute of Technology.
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