[WikiEN-l] Times article (London)

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

On 8/20/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> On 8/19/07, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/20/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> > > Anyone have a copy of the 13th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica?
> > > Einstein wrote the "Space-Time" article
> > > <ref>http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Main_Page</ref>.  I'd be
> > > interested in seeing how many references he gave.  "Who would Einstein
> > > have cited?"  No need to speculate.  Let's find out.
> >
> > It appears in volume 25, page 525-6
> >
> > http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/SOU_STE/SPACE_AND_TIME.html
> >
> > Distributed Proofreaders doesnt appear to have volume 25, however Tim
> > Starling has all of EB1911 on Wikisource as TIFF images (a TIFF plugin
> > such as AlternaTIFF is required) at
> >
> > http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=User:Tim_Starling
> >
> > http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=User:Tim_Starling/ScanSet_TIFF_demo&vol=25&page=ED5A545
> > http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=User:Tim_Starling/ScanSet_TIFF_demo&vol=25&page=ED5A546
> >
> > The jrank.org page looks pretty good; the three refs at the bottom are
> > the only ones at the bottom of the original entry.
> >
> That article is signed by "H. St." (Henry Sturt).  See the credits page:
> http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=User:Tim_Starling/ScanSet_TIFF_demo&vol=25&page=ED5A009
>
> I guess EB didn't buy into the whole spacetime thing until a few years
> later.  So much for the 11th edition being the greatest ever.  (I
> skimmed the article, and it doesn't seem to even mention spacetime).


Interestingly neither does the 15th edition have a discrete article on
spacetime, but it is discussed under the title "Time", And the reference
I suspect is used for the section on space-time is likely Problems of
Space and Time, 1964, J.J.C Smart (ed.).

The article on time itself is signed by someone who goes by the initials
 J.J.C.S, coincidence, you be the judge....

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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]