FUN WITH MAPS – ISSUE 2023-156 DAILY FEATURE:

By Steve Kovacs (Introduction by Chuck Gibson)

LOVELAND, OH (September 27, 2023) –Today’s edition of Fun with Maps tells us everything is relative and celebrates an understanding of motion.

E=Mc2

Born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879 he was slow to learn to speak.  By age 12 though, he discovered an original proof for the Pythagorean Theorem.  He mastered both portions of Calculus by age 14.

He downshifted in 1902 when he accepted a clerk position in Bern at the Swiss Patent Office where he worked until 1909.

The miracle year of 1905 occurred while he was a clerk.  He penned four published papers in that year on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special theory of relativity and the equivalence of mass and energy, E=Mc2, which was published on September 27, 1905.  The last two papers are cornerstones of modern physics. 

He was a bit of a ladies’ man with multiple girlfriends and two wives over the years.

He emigrated to the US in 1933, seeing the writing on the wall as he was Jewish.

He is Albert Einstein.

Teesdale’s colorful map of Switzerland is presented here from 1831.  Two interesting facts about this country: it has four official languages — Romansh (derived from Latin), Italian, French and the majority speaking German; and, most households have firearms, yet homicide rates are among the lowest in the world.

Steve Kovacs and his wife Theresa reside in Loveland, Ohio where they raised their two children. He is a passionate collector of antique maps.

Visit his antique map boutique world-on-paper online. Watch for his daily feature Steve Kovacs: Fun with Maps here on Loveland Beacon.