[EINSTEIN] MOKOWSKI, Alexander. Einstein Einblicke in seine Gedankenwelt. Hamburg, Hoffmann - Berlin, Fontane, 1921.
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8vo, mm. 215x145; Editorial binding in cloth with golden title on the front cover; pp. 240:
FIRST EDITION. Moszkowski exposes clearly and understandable the theory of relativity and its implications, including on numerous discussions with Einstein. The final chapter, Er selbst, is expressly devoted to Einstein's personality.
The Net Advance of Physics: “Moszkowski, born in 1851, was a successful journalist and popular novelist -- one of the first writers of science fiction in German -- but for that very reason had a somewhat controversial reputation. He met Einstein in 1916 and immediately knew that here was someone history would remember as a German titan like Goethe ; he resolved forthwith to be remembered himself as a new Eckermann, and carefully recorded all of his conversations with the rising genius… The published text of 1921 (followed here) apparently is only part of what Moszkowski wrote, having been heavily abridged in the fear that a longer work would make Einstein come across as a narcissist obsessed with his own fame… Even in its partial state Einstein the Searcher fulfills its German title, providing remarkable and otherwise unobtainable "insights into the thought-world" of the greatest physicist of the 1900s during a critical period of his life.
While the reader might wish that there was a bit more Einstein and less Moszkowski in some of the dialogues, one cannot but be grateful to the author for recording (and sometimes provoking) Einstein's comments on subjects about which his views would otherwise be unknown.” The Net Advance of Physics, http://web.mit.edu
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FIRST EDITION. Moszkowski exposes clearly and understandable the theory of relativity and its implications, including on numerous discussions with Einstein. The final chapter, Er selbst, is expressly devoted to Einstein's personality.
The Net Advance of Physics: “Moszkowski, born in 1851, was a successful journalist and popular novelist -- one of the first writers of science fiction in German -- but for that very reason had a somewhat controversial reputation. He met Einstein in 1916 and immediately knew that here was someone history would remember as a German titan like Goethe ; he resolved forthwith to be remembered himself as a new Eckermann, and carefully recorded all of his conversations with the rising genius… The published text of 1921 (followed here) apparently is only part of what Moszkowski wrote, having been heavily abridged in the fear that a longer work would make Einstein come across as a narcissist obsessed with his own fame… Even in its partial state Einstein the Searcher fulfills its German title, providing remarkable and otherwise unobtainable "insights into the thought-world" of the greatest physicist of the 1900s during a critical period of his life.
While the reader might wish that there was a bit more Einstein and less Moszkowski in some of the dialogues, one cannot but be grateful to the author for recording (and sometimes provoking) Einstein's comments on subjects about which his views would otherwise be unknown.” The Net Advance of Physics, http://web.mit.edu
Good copy
