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WINTER 19R7 the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein Volume I WINTER 19R7 The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein Volume I. The Earlv Years: 1879-1902 J. John Stachel, Editor David C. Cassidy and Robert Schulmann, Associate Editors Princeton University Press patent office. Of the 142 docu- is proud to announce the publi- ments reproduced here, ap- cation of the first volume of one proximately two-thirds were of the most ambitious publishing discovered by the editors and ventures ever undertaken in the have not been previously pub- documentation of the history lished. of science. 'This first installment appears The Collected Papers ofAlbert more than 30 years after the great Einstein will contain over 14,000 man's death, but it has been worth documents and will fill more waiting for. .This elegantly, than forty volumes. Sponsored scrupulously prepared book is [a] by the Hebrew University paradigm ofacademic publishing of Jerusalem and Princeton at its best." 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