E336 -- Du mouvement d'un corps solide quelconque lorsq'il tourne autour d'un axe mobile
(On the motion of a rotating solid round a mobile axis)
Summary:
According to C. G. J. Jacobi, a treatise with a similar title was presented to the Berlin Academy on November 9, 1758 (see 1765, E292).
Publication:
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Originally published in Memoires de l'academie des sciences de Berlin 16, 1767, pp. 176-227
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Opera Omnia: Series 2, Volume 8, pp. 313 - 356
- According to Jacobi, the manuscript of the printed treatise except the last
three paragraphs can be found in the archive of the Berlin Academy.
Documents Available:
- E336 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 E336 include:
- Maltese G., “On the relativity of motion in Leonhard Euler's science.” Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 54 (4), pp. 319-348 (2000).
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