Summer Arrivals: Our Latest Volume and New Versions of Previous Volumes
We, who have had the chance to venture into our campus office, have had the joy of holding and paging through advance copies of our latest volume: The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 16: The Berlin Years: Writings & Correspondence, June 1927 - May 1929. The translation and documentary editions are pictured here with the title page.
The crunch time for Volume 16, when sets of page proofs were exchanged with our copy editor and the press, took place under lockdown. Like many around the globe we adapted to a new work flow while missing workmates' camraderie and visits from international colleagues, who typically come to work alongside us, at Caltech, as our shared deadlines clustered ever closer together. The rigorous editing of a 1,000+ page manuscript in English and German, replete with 540 full-text documents and 1,164 abstracts, equations, facsimile reproductions and all the vital front and backmatter, such as introduction and index, was done by the end of 2020. A few last minute corrections on our end and a paper shortage on the printer's end, working from home on Volume 16 will hold a special place in the project's memory. CPAE Volume 16 will be released in the US on June 22 and in the UK and EU on July 13, 2021. Not ones to rest on our laurels, we are happy to report that research for Volume 17 is underway and keeping us on our toes.
