E171 -- Recherches sur la precession des equinoxes st sur la nutation de l'axe de la terre

(Research concerning the precession of the eqinoxes and of the nutation of the earth's axis)

Summary:

According to C. G. J. Jacobi, a treatise with this title was presented to the Berlin Academy on March 5, 1750.

Publication:

Originally published in Memoires de l'academie des sciences de Berlin 5, 1751, pp. 289-325
Opera Omnia: Series 2, Volume 29, pp. 92 - 123

Documents Available:

Original publication: E171
E171 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.
Steven Jones at Adelphi University has completed an English translation of E171, in conjunction with Professor Rob Bradley.

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