DOC.
14
EINSTEIN AND BESSO MANUSCRIPT
361
ADX.
[79 896].
The document consists of
a 51-page manuscript,
and
additional
text
and calcu-
lations that
were
noted
on a
letter that Einstein had received. Both items
were
found
in
SzGB
after Besso's death. The
manuscript
consists of loose
sheets,
most
of them
single-sided, some
double-sided,
with
no
continuous
numbering.
Roughly
half
the
pages are
in
Einstein's
hand,
the
other half
in
Besso's. The
typed
letter
is
from C.-E.
Guye to Einstein,
31
May 1913
(Vol. 5,
Doc.
443).
Besso added
text
and calculations
to
the
recto
and
verso
of the sheet
on
which this letter
is written,
while Einstein
supplied
two equations.
The
manuscript
and the
handwritten
portions
added
to
the letter
are
reproduced
here in transcribed form.
A
facsimile
reproduction is presented
in
Appendix
B.
The
pages are
numbered
1
through
53
for
this
edition
(recto
and
verso
of
the letter
from
Guye to
Einstein
appear as
[pp.
16-17]).
These
page
numbers
can
be found
in
square
brackets
in
the
upper-left
corner
of the
transcription pages.
The footnotes
are
placed
on
the
page facing
the
transcription
of
the
page
to
which
they
refer
and
are preceded by
the
name(s)
of the main
author(s)
of
that
particular
page.
In
those instances where Besso made
a
small contribution
to
a
page
in
Einstein's
hand,
or
vice
versa,
the reader
is
alerted
to this in
a
footnote.
Two separate sets
of numbers
in
square
brackets
are
added
to the
transcription, one numbering
footnotes
("[1],"
etc.),
the other
one numbering equations ("[eq. 1],"
etc.).
[p. 1]
(Einstein)
[1]See
the editorial
note,
"The Einstein-Besso
Manuscript
on
the
Motion of
the
Perihelion of
Mercury," sec.
III,
for the
arguments
on
which the
dating
of
this
document
is
based.
[2]See
the editorial
note,
"The Einstein-Besso
Manuscript
on
the Motion of
the
Perihelion of
Mercury,"
sec.
II.1a, for
a
brief outline of
the
calculation
on [pp.
1-7].
[3]The
right-hand
side of
[eq.
1],
the "Entwurf" field
equations
Auv
=
k(0uv +
duv)
in first
approximation, is
the
energy-momentum
tensor 0uv
for
an
inhomogeneous mass
distribution.
[4][Eq.
7] gives
the determinant
of
the
metric
in
[eq.
5].
[5]See
the editorial
note,
"The Einstein-Besso
Manuscript on
the
Motion of
the
Perihelion of
Mercury," sec.
II.1a,
eq.
(2).
The three
terms in
the left column
correspond
to
the three
terms
on
the left-hand side of
eq.
(2),
the
two terms in
the
right
column
correspond to
the
two
terms
on
the
right-hand
side.
The
terms
appear to
be
copied directly
from Einstein and Grossmann
1913
(Doc. 13), pp.
15-16.
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