2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/97593Translation by S. Antoci and A. Loinger of the fundamental memoir, that contains the ORIGINAL form of the solution of Schwarzschild's problem. The solution is regular in the whole space-time, with the only exception of the origin of the spatial co-ordinates; consequently, it leaves no room for the science fiction of the black holes. (In the centuries of the decline of the Roman Empire people said: ``Graecum est, non legitur''...).Plain TeX, 7 pages, English translation of the original paper by K. SchwarzschildHistory and Philosophy of PhysicsGeneral Relativity and Quantum CosmologyOn the gravitational field of a mass point according to Einstein's theorytext