All of Einstein's writings are now online

by jamesjyu • 14 years ago

290 23 14 years ago

eoghan• 14 years ago

This is great. Would love them in a more accessible format. 10 mins in and I still haven't been able to find anything actually written by him… :-)

craze3• 14 years ago

Just did a wildcard search and found all the documents in a second.

All 80,000+ documents from the archives:

http://alberteinstein.info/vufind1/Search/Results?lookfor=*&...

olalonde• 14 years ago

I did the same, but I still can't figure out how to read a document once you clicked the search result. i.e. http://new.alberteinstein.info/vufind1/Record/EAR000000005/T...

zinssmeister• 14 years ago

I agree, the UI is kinda terrible :(

indubitably• 14 years ago

The search is. The reader is the same one as the internet archive, which is IMHO pretty great:

http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader

plainOldText• 14 years ago

I had exactly the same thought. Although I gave up after 3 min. :)

run4yourlives• 14 years ago

I'm sure the internet will now point out how horribly wrong he was about everything.

ahelwer• 14 years ago

Almost an Onion headline:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-biography-reveals-einst...

clone1018• 14 years ago

Heh, not after the HN + Reddit effect.

3pt141592• 14 years ago

The thing that makes me saddest about Einstein is that his last words are forever lost since they were in German to a nurse that did not speak the language.

gry• 14 years ago

I haven't heard this nor can find the narrative. Please cite.

3pt141592• 14 years ago

http://www.time.com/time/archive/collections/0,21428,c_einst...

adrianwaj• 14 years ago

Maybe something like: "Now I see if I was right."

creatom• 14 years ago

It sounds cool, but site doesn't load for me.

morton_hu• 14 years ago

The same to me.

aangjie• 14 years ago

Same here.. Anyone found a mirror? or contacted the original hoster? I wouldn't mind hosting a torrent if that can help.

EdisonW• 14 years ago

we should always have people commenting when the site goes down after HN/reddit effect (if no one has done it already) and then we can have an avg time goes down/host provider graph show up. :)

chaffneue• 14 years ago

I'm excited about the digitzation project, but the search experience is so poor that it's difficult and cumbersome to locate any actually digitized work. Some of the digitized documents appear to be broken - like this one http://new.alberteinstein.info/vufind1/Record/EAR000016939. Those that you do find are virtually impossible to read, because they aren't actually transcriptions, they're relatively low-res image scans of his manuscripts. http://new.alberteinstein.info/vufind1/Digital/EAR000000025#... - then there's access wall pdfs embedded in some of the DB entries https://sec2.einstein.caltech.edu/CookieAuth.dll?GetLogon?cu... What a mess. I can only hope they make it much better in future revs.

dmragone• 14 years ago

I clicked on "Archival Database" and then "Find" (with no input) to see all documents. Using the filters on the right, I was then able to filter for Author = "Albert Einstein", Language = "English", and Digital Object = "Digitized Documents". Here's a link to what I got (sorted by title alphabetically): http://new.alberteinstein.info/vufind1/Search/Results?lookfo...

Even so, I am unable to figure out how to access the document. Perhaps I am missing something relevant?

All of Einstein's writings are now online

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