E82 -- De la force de percussion et de sa veritable mesure
(Percussion and its true measurement)
Summary:
According to the remark at the top of the abstract, it was presented to the Berlin Academy on
June 4, 1744.
Publication:
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Originally published in Memoires de l'academie des sciences de Berlin 1, 1746, pp. 21-53
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Opera Omnia: Series 2, Volume 8, pp. 27 - 53
- Abstract reprinted with the title “Sur le choc et la pression” in Hist. de l’acad. d. sc. de Berlin
[1], (1745), 1746, pp. 25-28
- Abstract: Collection académique (Dijon and Paris) 8, 1770, pp. 29-31 [82a]
Documents Available:
- Original publication: E082
- E82 can be viewed or downloaded from Digitalisierte Akademieschriften und Schriften zur Geschichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, which includes serial publications of the Prussian Academy of Science in the 18th and 19th Centuries.
- 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 E82 include:
- Calinger R., “Leonhard Euler: The first St Petersburg years (1727-1741).” Historia Mathematica, 23 (2), pp. 121-166 (May 1996).
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