BIB_ID
299811
Accession number
MA 3871.42
Creator
Euler, Leonhard, 1707-1783.
Display Date
1749 June 7.
Credit line
Gift of H.P. Kraus, 1979.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.4 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
Discussing the observed irregularities of the moon's motions; asking Maupertuis to use his good offices with Alexis Clairaut to persuade Clairaut to share his new approach to the "problem of three bodies" with Euler; noting that if Clairaut has solved the problem of three bodies, "this would be the most important discovery in celestial mechanics that has ever been made"; mentioning [Jean Le Rond] d'Alembert.
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