E141 -- Sur l'accord des deux dernieres eclipses du soleil et de la lune avec mes tables, pour trouver les vrais momens des pleni-lunes et novi-lunes, par M. Euler
(On the agreement of the last two eclipses of the sun and moon with my tables, for finding the actual times of the half-moon and new moon)
Summary:
According to C. G. J. Jacobi, a treatise with
approximately the same title was presented to the Berlin Academy on October 24, 1748.
Publication:
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Originally published in Memoires de l'academie des sciences de Berlin 4, 1750, pp. 86-98
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Opera Omnia: Series 2, Volume 30, pp. 89 - 100
- According to Jacobi, the manuscript of the printed treatise can be found in the archive of
the Berlin Academy.
Documents Available:
- Original publication: E141
- E141 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 E141 has been prepared by Andrew Fabian and Hieu Nguyen.
- Fabian and Nguyen have also prepared a section-by-section
Synopsis of E141. This is a great starting place for those looking for just the main ideas in this work.
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