E215 -- Elemens de la trigonometrie spheroidique tires de la methode des plus grands et plus petits

(Elements of spheroidal trigonometry taken from the method of the maxima and minima)

Summary:

According to C. G. J. Jacobi, a treatise with this title (“sphéroïdique” was probably just incorrectly copied as “sphérique”) was presented to the Berlin Academy on September 11, 1754.

Publication:

Originally published in Memoires de l'academie des sciences de Berlin 9, 1755, pp. 258-293
Opera Omnia: Series 1, Volume 27, pp. 309 - 339

Documents Available:

Original publication: E215
E215 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.
English draft translation (George Heine): E215.

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