JF Ptak Science Books  Quick Post 

I’m pretty sure that we don’t need to establish here the intellectual history of Albert Einstein’s miracle year of 1905.  What I don’t normally see are the first mentions of the papers in English, and among the earliest reports there appear in Science Abstracts, Section A–it wasn’t until 1920 that the papers were first fully translated into English  by M. N. Saha and S. N. Bose as The principle of relativity : original papers by A. Einstein and H. Minkowski, and published by the University of Calcutta.  

And so here they are–I only have the first three of the four papers from the Abstracts, as I don’t have the second 1905 volume in which the last paper appears.This series was published in London by E. & F.N. Spon (Ltd.) and is the physics volume for the abstracts of scientific papers published in dozens of the world’s leading journals, and was/is a standard reference tool.  ‘

The photoelectric effect paper: A. Einstein, Annalen der Physik, volume 17, 132 (1905) [17 pp.]  “Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden  heuristischen Gesichtspunkt”, (“Generation and Transformation of Light”), abstract #1562, page 500: