‘A Man of my Type’—Editing the Einstein Papers

1987 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Stachel
Keyword(s):  
Albert Einstein ◽  
Great Scientist ◽  
Historical Role

Towards the end of the career of many a distinguished scientist, or shortly after his or her death, an edition of the scientist's articles is published under the title: ‘The Collected Papers of…’. While not wishing to slight either the ceremonial importance or real utility of such collections, they must be clearly distinguished from the sort of editions on which the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein is modelled. The former are primarily intended to make the published papers of a great scientist easily accessible to other scholars and students working in the same field as an aid to their research. The reader is provided with little or no help in understanding or evaluating the historical role these writings played in the development of this field, the circumstances leading to their creation, or how they fit into the life of their creator.

Albert Einstein on Writing

1984 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis E. Minor
Keyword(s):  
Albert Einstein ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Mental Images ◽  
Great Scientist ◽  
Ernst Mach ◽  
Moving Bodies ◽  
Free Variation

While a great scientist such as Albert Einstein may seem to work in another dimension of thought, Einstein struggled with converting that thought into words. He found a “model for scientific historical writing” in the work of Ernst Mach, an Austrian physicist. Mach's model, as modified by Einstein, takes the reader through the writer's thought processes—discovery of an anomaly, free variation of mental images, finding the invariant in those images, and the communication in words of the new concept. Einstein followed this model in his famous 1905 relativity paper, On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies [1].

scholarly journals Albert Einstein, cosmos and religion

2007 ◽  
pp. 61-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Dokovic ◽  
P. Grujic
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Albert Einstein ◽  
Philo Of Alexandria ◽  
Baruch Spinoza ◽  
Great Scientist ◽  
Religious Background ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Ontological Aspect

We consider Einstein's attitude regarding religious as such, from both cosmological and epistemological points of view. An attempt to put it into a wider socio-historical perspective was made, with the emphasis on ethnic and religious background. It turns out that the great scientist was neither atheist nor believer in the orthodox sense and the closest labels one might stick to him in this respect would be pantheism/cosmism (ontological aspect) and agnosticism (episte?mological aspect). His ideas on divine could be considered as a continuation of line traced by Philo of Alexandria, who himself followed Greek Stoics and (Neo-) Platonists and especially Baruch Spinoza. It turns out that Einstein's both scientific (rational aspects) and religious (intuitive aspects) thinking were deeply rooted in the Hellenic culture. His striving to unravel the secrets of the universe and the roots of cosmological order resembles much the ancient ideas of the role of knowledge in fathoming the divine as such, as ascribed to Gnostics. .

Aneurysms in the history of medicine

VASA ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bollinger ◽  
Rüttimann
Keyword(s):  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Albert Einstein ◽  
Thomas Mann ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
John Hunter ◽  
History Of

Die Geschichte des sackförmigen oder fusiformen Aneurysmas reicht in die Zeit der alten Ägypter, Byzantiner und Griechen zurück. Vesal 1557 und Harvey 1628 führten den Begriff in die moderne Medizin ein, indem sie bei je einem Patienten einen pulsierenden Tumor intra vitam feststellten und post mortem verifizierten. Weitere Eckpfeiler bildeten die Monographien von Lancisi und Scarpa im 18. bzw. beginnenden 19. Jahrhundert. Die erste wirksame Therapie bestand in der Kompression des Aneurysmasacks von außen, die zweite in der Arterienligatur, der John Hunter 1785 zum Durchbruch verhalf. Endoaneurysmoraphie (Matas) und Umhüllung mit Folien wurden breit angewendet, bevor Ultraschalldiagnostik und Bypass-Chirurgie Routineverfahren wurden und die Prognose dramatisch verbesserten. Die diagnostischen und therapeutischen Probleme in der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts werden anhand von zwei prominenten Patienten dargestellt, Albert Einstein und Thomas Mann, die beide im Jahr 1955 an einer Aneurysmaruptur verstarben.

Bauchaortenaneurysma – Diagnostik und interventionell-radiologische Therapie

Radiopraxis ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. E74-E92
Author(s):  
Susanne Anton ◽  
Erik Stahlberg ◽  
Jan Peter Goltz
Keyword(s):  
Chirurgische Therapie ◽  
Albert Einstein ◽  
Charles De Gaulle ◽  
Endovaskuläre Aortenreparatur ◽  
Aorta Abdominalis ◽  
De Gaulle

Das Bauchaortenaneurysma (BAA) als eine fokale Erweiterung aller Wandschichten der Aorta abdominalis ist ein komplexes und lebensbedrohliches Krankheitsbild – Albert Einstein und Charles de Gaulle sind an einer Ruptur verblutet. Eine endovaskuläre Aortenreparatur (EVAR) oder offen-chirurgische Therapie haben das Ziel, das Rupturrisiko niedrig zu halten bzw. zu eliminieren und die Lebenserwartung des Patienten zu verbessern.

Overcoming the Civilizational Crisis - On the Way of Spiritual and Cultural Self Identification. On the Social and Philosophical Heritage of I.A. Ilyin

2013 ◽  
pp. 76-80
Author(s):  
Alexander M. Sharipov
Keyword(s):  
Great Scientist ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Self ◽  
The Way

On the activity of the International Ilyin Committee (IIC) on preparation and celebration of 130-th Anniversary of I.A.Ilyin, the great scientist and patriot of Russia.

Paper Pancasila - Gerra - 2018

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerra Regina Clarissa Putri Lestari ◽  
Agustinus Dewantara
Keyword(s):  
Albert Einstein

Agama merupakan hal yang penting karena bisa menjadi landasan moral dalam berpolitik. “Ilmu pengetahuan tanpa agama akan menjadi buta, sedangkan agama tanpa ilmu pengetahuan hanya akan menjadi lumpuh,” kata Albert Einstein. Dunia politik pasti menggunakan ilmu pengetahuan yang sangat mendalam. Jika dikaitkan dengan pernyataan Einstein, berpolitik tanpa agama akan menjadi buta. Agama merupakan hal yang penting karena bisa menjadi landasan moral dalam berpolitik. Karena setiap agama selalu mengajarkan nilai-nilai kebaikan dalam setiap kehidupan. Nilai-nilai kebaikan inilah yang dapat diambil sebagai landasan moral dalam berpolitik. Agama tanpa ilmu pengetahuan hanya akan menjadi lumpuh. Jika kita ingin terjun ke dunia politik dengan hanya mengerti tentang agama saja kita tidak akan mampu dalam mengambil langkah dan tindakan.

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