E120 -- Recherches sur la question des inegalites du mouvement de Saturne et de Jupiter

(Investigations on the question of the disparities of the movement of Saturn and Jupiter)

Originally published with the full title: Recherches sur la question des inégalités du mouvement de Saturne et de Jupiter, suject proposé pour le prix de l’annèe 1748, par l’académie royale des sciences de Paris…Par M. Euler, professeur royal de mathématiques à Berlin, de lacadémie impériale de S. Pétersbourg & des sociétés royales d’Angleterre & de Prusse.

Summary:

Motto: Ponderibus librata suis per inane profundum
Sidera, quo vis alma trahit retrahitque sequuntur.

Publication:

Originally published in Piece qui a remporte le prix de l'academie royale des sciences 1748, 1749, pp. 1-123
Opera Omnia: Series 2, Volume 25, pp. 45 - 157

Documents Available:

Original publication via Zentralbibliothek Zürich: E120
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 E120 include:
- Dhombres J., “Some aspects of the history of functional-equations linked to the evolution of the function concept.” Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 36 (2), pp. 91-181 (1986).
- Golland LA, Golland RW., “Euler troublesome series - an early example of the use of trigonometric series.” Historia Mathematica, 20 (1), pp. 54-67, (Feb 1993).
- Katz VJ., “The calculus of the trigonometric functions.” Historia Mathematica, 14 (4), pp. 311-324 (Nov 1987).

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