EINSTEIN'S MANUSCRIPT
ON
SPECIAL
RELATIVITY
7
the
war.[29]
A few
lines
on
the back of Marx's letter
in
Ilse Einstein's hand
suggest
that Einstein declined
again
because
he
considered
his text obsolete.[30]
At Einstein's
suggestion
Marx turned
to
Jakob
Grommer,
Einstein's assistant
at
the
time,
for
a
revision of the
manuscript.[31]
Even the
revision, however,
which
was
to
be
signed
by
both Grommer and
Einstein,
could
not be
published.
In March
1924
Marx
urged
Einstein
again
to
proceed
with
it,[32]
but
by
July
he
was
able
to note
only
that Einstein
was
not in
a
position
to
sign
Grommer's work
as a
co-author.[33]
Marx
then made
a
last
attempt
to
have at
least
a
"condensed
survey"
of
relativity
from
Einstein,
before
finally
giving
up.[34]
Einstein's
masterfully
written
exposition
thus
remained
unpublished,
and
the unrevised
manuscript preserves
a
unique image
of
his
views
on
electrodynamics
and
relativity theory
around
1912.
V
The
following
table of
contents is not
part
of the
original
manuscript
but
has
been
drawn
up
on
the basis of Einstein's
headings
for easier
access
by
the
reader. The
page
numbers
in
square
brackets refer
to the
original manuscript
and
are
indicated
in
the
outside
margin
of the
printed
document.
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
Section
One. An
Outline
of
Lorentz's
Electrodynamics
1.
The Fundamental Maxwell-Lorentz
Equations
for the Vacuum
in the Absence of
Electrically
and
Magnetically
Polarizable
Bodies
2. Energy
and
Momentum
in
Lorentz's
Electrodynamics
in the
Absence of
Electrically
and
Magnetically
Polarizable Bodies
3. Completion
of Lorentz's
Theory
for the Case that
Electrically
and
Magnetically
Polarizable Media Are Present
(Bodies
at
Rest)
[p.1]
[p.
4]
[p. 6]
[29]See
Erich Marx
to Einstein,
3
March
1922.
[30]"Written
in
the
year 12. Regret,
very
much obsolete. Consent
impossible.
Could
not bring
himself
to
allow the
ms.
to be
published
in its
present
form"
("Im
Jahre
12
geschrieben.
bedaure,
dermaßen veraltet.
Einwilligung unmöglich.
nicht über
sich
gewinnen,
das
Mkpt.
in
vorliegender
Form veröffentlichen
zu
lassen").
[31]For evidence,
see
Leo Jolowicz
to Einstein, 20 March
1922,
and
Einstein
to
Leo
Jolowicz,
25
March
1922.
[32]See
Erich Marx
to Einstein,
17
March
1924.
[33]See
Erich Marx
to
Einstein,
1
July
1924.
[34]"gedrängte Uebersicht"
(Erich
Marx
to
Einstein,
1
July
1924).
In
the
same
letter Marx
wrote:
"More than
anything
else
I
would
have liked
to
have
a
paper
of
yours"
("Ich
hätte über
alles
gern
einen Artikel
von
Ihnen
gehabt").