BIB_ID
299806
Accession number
MA 3871.40
Creator
Euler, Leonhard, 1707-1783.
Display Date
1749 Feb. 1.
Credit line
Gift of H.P. Kraus, 1979.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters from Euler to Maupertuis. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 3871 and MA 3872 for details.
Summary
Thanking Maupertuis for ordering experimental liquid-filled lenses from Paris for him; commenting on the publication of the Academy's Memoires; discussing his works on Saturn and on dioptrics; alluding to the non-agreement of the moon's motion with Newtonian theory; mentioning the possible relocation of the Homann firm of geographers from Nuremberg to Berlin.
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