BIB_ID
299814
Accession number
MA 3871.43
Creator
Euler, Leonhard, 1707-1783.
Display Date
1749 June 21.
Credit line
Gift of H.P. Kraus, 1979.
Description
1 item (1 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 "movement of the apogee of the moon"; asking Maupertuis to forward letters on this subject to [Pierre Charles] Le Monnier and [Jean Le Rond] d'Alembert; mentioning Alexis Clairaut and his method of calculating this movement.
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