BIB_ID
299916
Accession number
MA 3872.31
Creator
Euler, Leonhard, 1707-1783.
Display Date
1752 Feb. 1.
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Gift of H.P. Kraus, 1979.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 19.7 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
Commenting on a paper he presented at a recent meeting of the Academy; giving an example of a geometrical construction based upon an ellipse; telling Maupertuis that an atlas being published by the Berlin Academy is ready; mentioning that [Jean Le Rond] d'Alembert withdrew his paper from a competition.
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