Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter KorperA. Einstein
Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Korper
by A. Einstein · first published 1905
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The War of The Worlds, H.G. Wells, 1898 Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, 1861 Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper ("On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies"), A. Einstein, 1905
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?” ↗The prime glory of Einstein's 1905 papers is their accessibility. Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper is famously devoid of footnotes, and contains no insurmountable math. Of course he dashed off another three articles in the same edition of Annalen der Physik, all on the same level of comprehensibility, one of which scored him a Nobel prize. The difficulty of relativity was and is a silly meme.
on “Charles Darwin: Genius or Plodder?” ↗A common argument is that it's valuable to have a partner as a sounding board and as a source of moral support. These roles are vital, but they don't necessarily have to be filled by founders. Einstein needed the help of his friend Michele Besso to develop special relativity, but Besso wasn't a coauthor on Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper. I don't see two as a natural lower bound on the number
on “Ask HN: First startup / cold feet. Any advice ?” ↗That's expecting far too much. It was a couple decades before E=mc². Einstein published 'Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper' in 1905. People weren't sure if such a thing as an atom even existed in the 19th century.
on “The Future Imagined in Albert Robida’s La Vie électrique (1890)” ↗