BIB_ID
299817
Accession number
MA 3871.44
Creator
Euler, Leonhard, 1707-1783.
Display Date
1749 Sept. 6.
Credit line
Gift of H.P. Kraus, 1979.
Description
1 item (3 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 Clairaut's solution to the "three bodies problem"; noting that [Daniel] Bernoulli says Clairaut's solution is correct; mentioning the Academy's attempt to evict a market gardener from its land; commenting on a dispute about a navigational instrument.
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