E132 -- Methodus viri celeberrimi Leonhardi Euleri determinandi gradus meridiani pariter ac paralleli telluris, secundum mensuram a celeb. de Maupertuis cum sociis institutam
(Method of the celebrated Leonhard Euler for determining a degree of the meridian, as well as of a parallel of the earth, based on the measurement undertaken by the celebrated de Maupertuis and his colleagues)
Summary:
This work was based on a
treatise submitted by C. N. de Winsham.
According to the records, it was presented to the St.
Petersburg Academy on January 26, 1741.
Publication:
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Originally published in Commentarii academiae scientiarum Petropolitanae 12, 1750, pp. 224-231
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Opera Omnia: Series 2, Volume 30, pp. 73 - 88
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