Volume 7: The Berlin Years: Writings, 1918-1921 (English translation supplement)
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We are pleased to be publishing this translation of selected documents of Volume 7 of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, the companion volume to the annotated, original-language documentary edition. As we have stated in all earlier volumes, these translations are not intended for use without the documentary edition, which provides the extensive editorial commentary necessary for a full historical and scientific understanding of the source documents. The translations strive first for accuracy, then literariness, though we hope that both have been achieved. Due to the nature of scientific-historical research, this volume is appearing out of sequential order, after Volume 8. The next volume in the series will be Volume 9. The documents were selected for translation by the editors of the The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. We thank Alfred Engel and Engelbert Schucking for their continuing good work and dedication to making Einstein’s scientific writings available to the English-speaking world. And we welcome Marion Philadelphia and Andreas Kossak as the compositors of this Writings volume. We thank Alice Calaprice for the copyediting, and Osik Moses for creating the index and finalizing the production with Linny Schenck. Finally, we are most grateful to the National Science Foundation, Grant No. SBR-9710507, for its support of our project. Princeton University Press January 2002 PUBLISHER’S FOREWORD