E261 -- Specimen alterum methodi novae quantitates transcendentes inter se comparandi; de comparatione arcuum ellipsis

(Example of another new methods for comparing transcendential quantities; on the comparison of the arcs of ellipses)

Summary:

According to C. G. J. Jacobi, a treatise with this title was read to the Berlin Academy on January 9, 1755.

Publication:

Originally published in Novi Commentarii academiae scientiarum Petropolitanae 7, 1761, pp. 3-48
Opera Omnia: Series 1, Volume 20, pp. 153-200

Documents Available:

Original publication: E261
Alexander Aycock has made draft translations into German and English, available online at Euler-Kreis Mainz.

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