Volume 1
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein Volume 1 begins with Einstein's birth and ends as he enters his first full-time job in the Swiss Patent Office. Of the 142 documents reproduced here, approximately two-thirds were discovered by the editors and have not been previously published, including over fifty letters exchanged with Mileva Maric, Einstein's classmate in Zürich and his future wife. Taken together, these letters and other previously unpublished documents contained in this volume provide an entirely new view of Einstein's youth. One of the documents in this volume is a set of
lecture-notes Einstein made
while a student at the ETH in Zürich. The lectures were given by
Heinrich
Friedrich Weber (1843-1912) during Einstein's second year at the ETH
(1897-1898). The course covered topics in thermodynamics,
as well as electricity and magnetism. A sample page from the notebook
depicts an
apparatus to measure the heat of evaporation of a fluid (see Volume 1,
pp.
131-132, for more details). |
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