E217 -- Recherches sur la veritable courbe que decrivent les corps jettes dans l'air ou dans un autre fluide quelconque
(Examination of the true curve that bodies which are airborne or in any other fluid)
Summary:
According to C. G. J. Jacobi, a treatise with approximately the same title was presented to the
Berlin Academy on July 20, 1752.
Publication:
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Originally published in Memoires de l'academie des sciences de Berlin 9, 1755, pp. 321-352
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Opera Omnia: Series 2, Volume 14, pp. 413 - 337
Documents Available:
- Original publication: E217
- E217 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.
- The Euler Archive attempts to monitor current scholarship for articles and books that may be of interest to Euler Scholars. Selected references we have found that discuss or cite E217 include:
- Steele BD., “Muskets and Pendulums - Robins, Benjamin, Euler, Leonhard and the ballistics revolution.” Technology and Culture, 35 (2), pp. 348-382 (Apr 1994).
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