E115 -- Methode de determiner la longitude des lieux par l'observation d'occultations des etoiles fixes par la lune
(Method of determining the longitude of the observation site by observation of the occulations of fixed stars by the moon)
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Originally published in Memoires de l'academie des sciences de Berlin 3, 1749, pp. 178-179
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Opera Omnia: Series 2, Volume 30, pp. 49 - 50
Documents Available:
- Original publication: E115
- E115 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.
- A translation of E115 into English has been done by Jennifer Grabowski, Jeffrey Meyer, and Erik Tou of Carthage College. A synopsis of this article is also available.
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