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Introduction to "Einstein - the Formative Years", John Stachel; themysteries and wonders of natural science - Aaron Bernstein's"Naturwissenschaftliche Volksbucher" and the adolescent Eistein, FrederickGregory; the young Einstein's physics education - H.F. Weber, Hermann vonHelmholtz and the Zurich Polytechnic Physics Institute, David Cahan; Kant'simpact on Einstein's thought, Mara Beller; Einstein's controversy with Drudeand the origin of statistical mechanics - an new glimpse from the "LoveLetters", Juergen Renn; physical approximations and stochastic processes inEinstein's 1905 paper on Brownian motion, Sahotra Sarkar; the construction ofthe special theory - some queries and considerations, Robert Rynasiewicz;Einstein's light quantum hypothesis - or why didn't Einstein propose aquantum gas a decade-and-a-half earlier?, John Stachel.