E266 -- Constructio lentium obiectivarum ex duplici vitro quae neque confusionem a figura sphaerica oriundam neque dispersionem colorum pariant.
(A construction of objective lenses from two glasses which produces neither confusion of a spherical figure nor gives rise to the dispersion of colors.)
Originally published with the full title: Constructio lentium objectivarum ex duplici vitro quae neque confusionem a figura
sphaerica oriundam, neque dispersionem colorum pariant. Auctore Leonhardo Eulero. Dissertatio occasione quaestionis de perfectione telescopiorum ab imperiali academia
scientiarum Petropolitana pro praemio propositae conscripta. Petropoli typis academiae
scientiarum 1762.
Summary:
According to C. G. J. Jacobi, a treatise with the title “Constructio
lentium objectivarum ex duplici vitro” was presented to the Berlin Academy on March 12, 1761.
According to
the records, the treatise was presented to the St. Petersburg Academy on May 17, 1762.
Publication:
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Originally published in Anmerck ungen uber die zeitungen, 1762, pp.
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Opera Omnia: Series 3, Volume 6, pp. 115 - 139
- A short report on the basic content of this treatise is found in the little piece by Joh. Ludw.
Steiner: Neue Entdeckungen betreffend die Refraktion oder Strahlenbrechung in Gläsern … von
Herrn Euler (Zurich, by Heidigger und Co. 1765, 20 pages, 80) [E266a]
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