> Have you ever seen an original physical copy of, say, Einstein's annus mirabilis papers I was a grad student at the institute for theoretical physics in Hei

> Have you ever seen an original physical copy of, say, Einstein's annus mirabilis papers I was a grad student at the institute for theoretical physics in Heidelberg. It's famously housed in two old villas with little room for books, so all the walls in almost all rooms are lined with shelfs. In the office I shared with five other students, there was one shelf in it that was locked. The only one in the building. In it was one book from 1905 that had a different color than all the others. That's the physical copy of the papers you mean. They had issues with theft so they had to have it replaced and then lock it. It probably wasn't even original though.