BIB_ID
299961
Accession number
MA 3872.52
Creator
Euler, Leonhard, 1707-1783.
Display Date
1759 Mar. 13.
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Gift of H.P. Kraus, 1979.
Description
1 item (2 p.) : ill. ; 21.9 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.
This is the last extant letter from Euler to Maupertuis. Maupertuis died in Basel on July 27, 1759.
With a diagram on p. 1.
This is the last extant letter from Euler to Maupertuis. Maupertuis died in Basel on July 27, 1759.
With a diagram on p. 1.
Summary
Discussing the lens system of a small telescope he was sending to Maupertuis; giving news of the Seven Years War.
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