E180 -- Avertissement au sujet des recherches sur la precession des equinoxes

(Notice on the subject of Research on the precession of the equinoxes)

Summary:

Euler cedes priority to d'Alembert for the first resolution of the problem of precession of the equinoxes and nutation of the earth's axis (solved by Euler in E171) and for the first published example of an equation whose graph exhibits a cuspidal point of the second kind (see E169)

Publication:

Originally published in Memoires de l'academie des sciences de Berlin 6, 1752, p. 412
Opera Omnia: Series 2, Volume 29, p. 124

Documents Available:

Original publication: E180
E180 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.
Professor Robert Bradley at Adelphi University has a translation of E180 available in PDF format.

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