Albert Einstein’s travel diary to the Far East and Middle East In the fall of 1922, Albert Einstein, along with his then-wife, Elsa Einstein, embarked on a five-and-a-half-month voyage to the Far East and Middle East, regions that the renowned physicist had never visited before. Einstein's lengthy itinerary consisted of stops in Hong Kong and Singapore, two brief stays in China, a six-week whirlwind lecture tour of Japan, a twelve-day tour of Palestine, and a three-week visit to Spain. This handsome edition makes available the complete journal that Einstein kept on this momentous journey. The telegraphic-style diary entries record Einstein's musings on science, philosophy, art, and politics, as well as his immediate impressions and broader thoughts on such events as his inaugural lecture at the future site of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a garden party hosted by the Japanese Empress, an audience with the King of Spain, and meetings with other prominent colleagues and statesmen. Entries also contain passages that reveal Einstein's stereotyping of members of various nations and raise questions about his attitudes on race. This beautiful edition features stunning facsimiles of the diary's pages, accompanied by an English translation, an extensive historical introduction, numerous illustrations, and annotations. Supplementary materials include letters, postcards, speeches, and articles, a map of the voyage, a chronology, a bibliography, and an index. Einstein would go on to keep a journal for all succeeding trips abroad, and this first volume of his travel diaries offers an initial, intimate glimpse into a brilliant mind encountering the great, wide world. Ze'ev Rosenkranz is senior editor and assistant director of the Einstein Papers Project at the California Institute of Technology. Previously, he was the Bern Dibner Curator of the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the author of Einstein Before Israel (Princeton) and The Einstein Scrapbook.
Reviews "The Travel Diaries is a substantially revised version of the 2012 translation that comes with an illuminating introduction and astonishingly comprehensive end-notes by Ze’ev Rosenkranz. . . . Anyone interested in Einstein’s complex, sometimes self-contradictory, character will be enjoyably provoked by reading his piquant Travel Diaries."--Andrew Robinson, Science "An eye-opening collection of travel diaries from the legendary scientist and thinker."--Kirkus Reviews "The handwritten diary shows Einstein in an unfamiliar light, as a tourist—in the real, earthbound sense, not (as in his famous thought experiment) riding a light beam through space-time. Never intended for publication, it records his thoughts and impressions as they occurred, unmediated and unfiltered by considerations of how they would affect his image."--Jerry Adler, Smithsonian "Few know of Einstein’s writings on travel. . . . That shortcoming may now be remedied with the publication of a fascinating narrative of his first main travels outside of Europe."--Michael Curtis, New English Review
Einstein's travel diaries reveal racist stereotypes 来源:BBC Newly published private travel diaries have revealed Albert Einstein's racist and xenophobic views. Written between October 1922 and March 1923, the diaries track his experiences in Asia and the M...
评分Einstein's travel diaries reveal racist stereotypes 来源:BBC Newly published private travel diaries have revealed Albert Einstein's racist and xenophobic views. Written between October 1922 and March 1923, the diaries track his experiences in Asia and the M...
评分Einstein's travel diaries reveal racist stereotypes 来源:BBC Newly published private travel diaries have revealed Albert Einstein's racist and xenophobic views. Written between October 1922 and March 1923, the diaries track his experiences in Asia and the M...
评分Einstein's travel diaries reveal racist stereotypes 来源:BBC Newly published private travel diaries have revealed Albert Einstein's racist and xenophobic views. Written between October 1922 and March 1923, the diaries track his experiences in Asia and the M...
评分Einstein's travel diaries reveal racist stereotypes 来源:BBC Newly published private travel diaries have revealed Albert Einstein's racist and xenophobic views. Written between October 1922 and March 1923, the diaries track his experiences in Asia and the M...
说实话,一开始我被这本书看似晦涩的开篇劝退了,但一旦适应了作者构建的独特节奏,便如同被一种神秘的力量吸入其中无法自拔。这本书最令人称道之处,在于其对“边界消融”概念的艺术化呈现。无论是地理上的疆界,还是心理上的防线,都在旅途的不断深入中被侵蚀、瓦解,直至最终达到一种混沌而又和谐的统一。作者对于自然现象的描写,已经超越了单纯的景物描写,它们更像是角色内心状态的外部投射——风暴即是内心的混乱,宁静的湖面则是短暂的清醒。我特别注意到,书中似乎对“重复”这一母题进行了反复探讨,同样的场景在不同的时空背景下重现,引发了关于宿命论和自由意志的深刻思考。语言上,它充满了一种古老而典雅的韵律感,仿佛在阅读一部被精心翻译过的古代文献,每一个句子都经过了时间的沉淀和打磨,读起来有一种厚重的历史感和人文关怀。
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评分这本书简直是一部扣人心弦的冒险史诗,文字的张力让人仿佛身临其境,跟随着主角穿越了无数未知的领域。作者对环境的细致描摹,无论是热带雨林的湿热蒸腾,还是极地冰原的凛冽寒风,都拿捏得恰到好处,每一个感官都被充分调动起来。特别是其中关于“时间扭曲”的描述,虽然没有直接触及复杂的物理概念,但那种主观上对流逝时间感到困惑和重塑的心理描写,极为深刻且富有诗意。我特别欣赏叙事节奏的把控,时而如山洪暴发般急促紧张,将人抛入险境;时而又像涓涓细流般缓慢沉静,留给读者充分的时间去体会人物内心的挣扎与顿悟。全书的基调是探索与追寻,那种对未知边界不断试探的勇气,感染力十足。我读到最后,甚至有一种意犹未尽的感觉,恨不得立刻翻开下一页,继续跟随主角踏上新的征途。这本书成功地将宏大的叙事与细腻的个人情感完美融合,是一次酣畅淋漓的阅读体验,绝对值得所有热爱旅行和深度思考的读者细细品味。
评分这本书带给我的是一种近乎“失重”的阅读体验。它成功地营造出一种脱离了日常逻辑和物理约束的氛围,让读者得以暂时逃离现实的重力。我欣赏作者在构建世界观时的那种近乎偏执的细节追求,尽管故事发生地设定在多个维度或时空交错之处,但作者对支撑这个世界的“规则”的阐述却异常清晰和自洽。整本书读下来,我脑海中浮现的画面是极其鲜明且富有颗粒感的,这得益于作者对光影、声音和触感的极致捕捉。特别值得一提的是,这本书中对“孤独的本质”的探讨,是如此的细腻入微,它没有将孤独描绘成一种悲剧,反而将其塑造成一种必要的、进行深度内省的催化剂。阅读的过程像是一场漫长而清醒的梦境,充满着奇异的符号和隐喻,需要读者以一种近乎朝圣般的心态去面对。这本书的价值在于,它强迫我们重新审视我们习以为常的现实结构,并以一种全新的、充满敬畏的眼光去观察我们自身的存在。
评分我对这本书的总体印象是,它呈现了一种极其独特的“内在地理学”。作者的笔触非常冷静克制,但字里行间却涌动着一股强大的哲学暗流。故事的结构看似松散,实则处处暗藏玄机,像是拼图一样,需要读者投入极大的注意力去捕捉那些看似不经意的细节,因为正是这些碎片化的记录,最终拼凑出了一个关于“存在”的宏大命题。我个人特别钟爱其中对于“记忆的载体”这一主题的探讨。书中的角色似乎总是在与过去进行一场漫长而无声的对话,那些被时间磨损的片段,在作者的笔下被赋予了新的质感和重量。语言风格上,它偏向于一种近乎散文诗的精致,大量的排比和对比手法,使得即使是描述日常的场景,也带有一种疏离的、审美的距离感。阅读过程中,我时常需要停下来,反复咀嚼那些拗口的、但极富力量的词汇组合,感受其背后的深层含义。这本书并非那种读完就丢的娱乐读物,它更像是一件需要反复摩挲、才能体会其温润质地的艺术品。
评分In them, he makes sweeping and negative generalisations, for example calling the Chinese "industrious, filthy, obtuse people".
评分In them, he makes sweeping and negative generalisations, for example calling the Chinese "industrious, filthy, obtuse people".
评分真正的日记只占整本书的15%...
评分真正的日记只占整本书的15%...
评分In them, he makes sweeping and negative generalisations, for example calling the Chinese "industrious, filthy, obtuse people".
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