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JANUARY-FEBRUARY
1917
him.
If
you
write him
yourself, please
tell him
that
his intuition
about
my paper
of
1914
has not
deceived
him;
the
following
two errata
were
in it:
1)
The consideration in
§12
is
incorrect because
the
events
can
be determined
uniquely,
without the
functions
describing
them
being
unique.[3]
2)
In
§14
at
the
top
of
page
1073
there
is
a
flawed
consideration.[4]
I
noticed
my
earlier mistakes
by calculating directly
that
my
former
field
equations
were
not satisfied for
a
rotating
system
in
a
Galilean
space.[5]
Hilbert
detected the
second
error as
well.[6]
Cordial
greetings, yours truly,
A.
Einstein.
291. To
Wladyslaw
Natanson
[Berlin,]
28 January 1917
Dear
Colleague,
I
return most
cordially your good
wishes for
the
now
not quite
so new
year.
May
more reason
and
goodwill develop among people
than
in the last
few
years.
I
am
also
sending you
a
couple
of short
papers.[1]
With
cordial
greetings
to
you
and
your family,
yours,
A.
Einstein.
292.
From Alexander Moszkowski
[Berlin,]
5
Fasanen
St.,
1
February
1917
Most
highly
esteemed
Professor,
Your
kind words occasioned
by
the
book
on
wonders[1]
made
me
overjoyed;
I
thank
you heartily!
From
time
to time
I
have made
a
number of
attempts
at
describing
certain
things
connected with
the
princ.
of
relat. for
our large
daily newspapers,
that
is,
of
necessity,
in
popularized
reduction. Since these matters have
met
with
a
positive response by
the
public,
the
editors
approached
me
about
covering
the
topic
more
thoroughly;
but then
I
had
to deal with
the
concern
about whether
the
descriptive
devices
employed
in
my journalistic
capacity
could
suffice.
An
informal
cue
from
you,
the
master, on
this
issue
of
conscience would be
very