Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.misty.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 22:55:38 -0600 Message-ID: <61A9A35C.24F0@ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 20:55:56 -0800 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Einstein Lied Again References: <610DA51D.680B@ix.netcom.com> <610DDBC4.431@ix.netcom.com> <61180C25.631@ix.netcom.com> <61A85D46.563B@ix.netcom.com> <61A90F25.2651@ix.netcom.com> <61A92D5B.596A@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 211202-8, 12/02/2021), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Lines: 65 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-W4NiGknWSQ0MYhCFJTQ5pZC6IjmZA7LFiBgAWys2EpoCg0XXO7/VtB1LM4ILn2sPDao3AG0S9KnRBUF!UvE2EGl0040rusGKgnn0Z4Eapt7ueEh8687aiAwhkwkPXIF80MRSvaGu8G80fqS8sdwRofLoof1J!lDC44LipSPc= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 4166 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:837344 sci.physics.relativity:568449 Clutterfreak wrote: > > On 12/2/2021 2:32 PM, The Starmaker wrote: > > Clutterfreak wrote: > >> > >> On 12/2/2021 1:40 PM, Clutterfreak wrote: > >>> On 12/2/2021 12:23 PM, The Starmaker wrote: > >>>> if you're looking for 'hard to find' books try: > >>>> > >>>> https://www.abebooks.com/ > >>>> > >>>> used bookstores from all over the world sell their used and rare books > >>>> there. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Your first step is to know the title of the book... > >>>> advance search you can use keywords instead. > >>>> > >>>> people sell books for $500.00, but you can find the same book for $2.50. > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> This works for relatively newer books. The exercise book I was after > >>> came out in 1930s. These copies got lost long before newer internet > >>> related facilities became available. Germany was bombed extensively in > >>> WWII. I suspect last copy was destroyed that way. > >>> > >> > >> And of course I didn't have the title of it. I only have a Persian > >> translation of it made in 1930s. The book does not have _one_ Latin > >> alphabet in it, so I only have the transliteration of Author's name, > >> thus cannot be sure the spelling is correct or not. Same with Title. I > >> only have a title in Persian, which doesn't even have to be the direct > >> translation of the title in original German. The only part of the book > >> that came directly from original are the drawings! So I am waiting until > >> searching by image get powerful enough to find the original by image > >> searching. At this time image searching is still in its infancy. Very > >> weak and leading to nothing, especially when source is so old. > > > > I'm pretty sure the author family members have a copy of the book.... > > you can go to their house and steal it. Or you can scan the whole book > > like google does. > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm afraid their house together with everything in it got bombed to > rubble 77 years ago. Perhaps the publisher was also bombed into > oblivion. Things disappear through time very efficiently, even without > wars :) > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus Let me see what the drawings look like. -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.