E8 -- Solutio problematis de invenienda curva, quam format lamina utcunque elastica in singulis punctis a potentiis quibuscunque sollicitata

(Solution to the problem of finding curves which are formed by an elastic strip when a force is applied to a single point)

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Originally published in Commentarii academiae scientiarum Petropolitanae 3, 1732, pp. 70-84
Opera Omnia: Series 2, Volume 10, pp. 1 - 16
Reprinted in Comment. acad. sc. Petrop. 3, ed. nova, Bononiae 1742, pp. 64-77 + 15 figures [E8a]

Documents Available:

Original publication: E008 (in the Commentarii), Volume 3
Ian Bruce has made both a translation and transcription of E8 available at his page Mathematical Works of the 17th Century.

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