E39 -- Solutio problematum quorundam astronomicorum
(Solution to a problem concerning astronomy)
Summary:
According to Eneström, "The problems are:
- Data planetae aequatione maxima, invenire orbitae ejus excentricitatem.
- Data excentricitate orbitae planetaris, invenire aequationem maximam.
- Data excentricitate orbitae planetaris, invenire anomaliam mediam, cui aequatio maxima respondet."
Publication:
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Originally published in Commentarii academiae scientiarum Petropolitanae 7, 1740, pp. 97-98
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Opera Omnia: Series 2, Volume 28, pp. 26 - 27
- Reprinted in Comment. acad. sc. Petrop. 7, ed. nova, Bononiae 1748, pp. 88-89 [E39a]
Documents Available:
- Original publication: E39 (in the Commentarii)
- English draft translation (Muhammad Syarif Fadhlurrahman): E39
- The Euler Archive attempts to monitor current scholarship for articles and books that may be of interest to Euler Scholars. Selected references we have found that discuss or cite E39 include:
- Katz VJ., “The calculus of the trigonometric functions.” Historia Mathematica, 14 (4), pp. 311-324 (Nov 1987).
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