186 DOCUMENT 131 OCTOBER
1915
ALS
(SzZZa).
[81
555].
[1]Dated
by
the
reference
to the
explosion
and
on
the
assumption
that the letter
was
written
the
week before the
Academy
reconvened.
[2]The
proofs
for
Zangger
1915b and
1915c,
which
appeared
in the last two issues
of
the
year
of
the Schweizerische
Zeitschrift für Strafrecht (see
also Doc.
86).
[3]Einstein
returned
to Berlin
from
a
trip
to Switzerland
on
22
September
(see
Doc.
122).
[4]Presumably the
idea
that the
appearance
of
a
(super)nova
could be interpreted
as
the
result
of
gravitational focusing
of
starlight passing by large
cosmic
masses.
The idea had been considered
by
Einstein
before,
as
becomes clear
from calculations in his “Scratch Notebook”
(Vol. 3,
Appendix
A),
[pp.
43-52]
(see
Renn
et
al.
1997
for
a
discussion).
[5]The
“investigation
of
last
year” presumably
is the
lengthy exposition
of
the
"Entwurf"
theory
in
Einstein 1914o
(Vol. 6,
Doc.
9).
The
“supplementary paper”
is
perhaps
(an early
version
of)
Einstein
1916b
(Vol. 6,
Doc.
27),
submitted
to
the Prussian
Academy on
3
February
1916,
that offered
a new
approach
to
generally
covariant
electrodynamics
(see
Doc. 122 for
an
earlier
reference
to
the main
results
of
this
paper).
Another
possibility
is that
it
is
a
paper that,
with
major revision,
would be
published as
Einstein
1915f
(Vol.
6,
Doc.
21),
submitted to the Prussian
Academy on
4 November.
The
original
intent
of
the
paper may
have
been
to
present a new
derivation
of
the “Entwurf” field
equations, correcting
the
erroneous
derivation
of
Einstein 1914o
(Vol.
6,
Doc.
9) (see
the
preceding
document for
an
outline
of
the
new derivation).
[6]Perhaps
the work
on
the
theory
of
Tetrode and Sackur for the
entropy
constant, which
was
presented as a
lecture
on
14
January
1916 to
the
Deutsche
Physikalische
Gesellschaft
(DPG) (see
Vol. 6,
Doc.
26).
[7]Einstein presented his
simple experiment
to demonstrate the existence
of
Ampère’s
molecular
currents
to
the DPG
on
25
February
1916
(see
Einstein
1916d
[Vol.
6,
Doc.
28];
see
also Doc. 122
for
a
short
description).
In the last
sentence
of
the
paper,
he
acknowledged
that
permission
had been
granted by
Emil
Warburg,
the President
of
the
Physikalisch-Technische
Reichsanstalt, to
carry
out the
experiment
in his
institute
(p.
177).
[8]The
first
meeting
of
the
Academy
that
Einstein
attended in the fall
of
1915
was on Thursday,
21
October
(see
Kirsten
and
Treder
1979b,
p.
216).
[9]Thirty-one
individuals lost their lives in
a
fire and
explosion on
30
September
1915 in the comb
factory
Walter,
45
km
from Lake Biel in
Mumliswil, canton
of
Solothurn. Some
of
the loss
of
life
was
due to the fact that
a heavy
entrance door blocked
the
main
route
of
escape (see
Neue
Zürcher
Zeitung
136
(6
October
1915), no.
1323,
p. [1]).
[10]Einstein-Maric
put
it
somewhat
differently.
She
argued
that Hans
Albert
“already
feels ill at
ease
with his friends when
seen
in his father’s
company” (“sich
schon
gegenüber
seinen Kameraden
bedrückt
fühlt, wenn er
mit seinem Vater
gesehen
wird.”
See Michele Besso to
Heinrich
Zangger,
autumn
1915, SzZZa).
131. To
Walther Schücking
Berlin
Wittelsbacherstr
13.
22 X.
15.
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geehrter
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