The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein
Volume 4, The Swiss Years: Writings, 1912-1914
Edited by Martin J. Klein, A. J. Kox, Jürgen Renn, and Robert Schulmann
Silvio Bergia, József Illy, Michel Janssen, John D. Norton, and Tilman Sauer, Contributing Editors
Rita Fountain and Annette Pringle, Editorial Assistants
420 pages
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995
ISBN 0-691-03705-1

This volume contains a major unpublished manuscript on relativity and electrodynamics, as well as an important research notebook documenting Einstein's work toward his first joint paper of 1913 with Marcel Grossmann. It also includes fifty pages of previously unknown calculations, by Einstein in collaboration with Michele Besso, on the motion of the perihelion of Mercury.

After un unsuccesful attempt to auction the manuscript on relativity and electrodynamics (Doc. 1) on 16 March 1996, it was bought by the Jacob E. Safra Philantropic Foundation, which has donated it to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. It is very satisfactory that this important document is no longer in private hands.

The Einstein-Besso manuscript on the perihelion motion of Mercury (Doc. 14) was auctioned for $360,000 by Christie's on 25 November 1996. The new owner wishes to remain anonymous.

A more detailed description of this volume can be found in its Introduction.

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