Previously untranslated Einstein paper in English

(repository.cam.ac.uk)

23 points | by ajw287 2 days ago ago

3 comments

  • leothetechguy a day ago ago

    That it was previously untranslated isn't noteworthy imo, Deutsch ist doch keine antike verlorene Sprache ;)

    • TFNA 16 hours ago ago

      No, it is noteworthy. Even within Europe and decades ago, when I trained in a field where much important literature was in other European languages like German or French, most undergraduate students were no longer interested in learning those and wanted everything to be provided in English (or the local language). Major academic publishers had already been comissioning, to guide students through the history of the field, volumes of classic nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century papers that had been translated from the original German etc. into English.

    • m4rtink 20 hours ago ago

      Ja, das ist doch klar. :)