E137 -- Examen artificii navis a principio motus interno propellendi
(Examination of a design for propelling a ship by an internal principle of motion)
Originally published with the full title: Examen artificii navis a principio motus interno propellendi quod qoundam ab acutissimo
viro Jacobo Bernoulli est propositum.
Summary:
According to the records, it was presented to the St. Petersburg Academy on September
2, 1748.
Publication:
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Originally published in Novi Commentarii academiae scientiarum Petropolitanae 1, 1750, pp. 106-123
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Opera Omnia: Series 2, Volume 20, pp. 130 - 145
Documents Available:
- Original publication: E137
- E137 is discussed in Ed Sandifer's How Euler Did It February
2004 column published online by the MAA.
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