E491 -- De proiectione geographica superficiei sphaericae
(On the geographical projections of spherical surfaces)
Summary:
According to the records, it was presented to the St. Petersburg Academy on September 4, 1775.
Publication:
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Originally published in Acta Academiae Scientarum Imperialis Petropolitinae 1777, 1778, pp. 133-142
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Opera Omnia: Series 1, Volume 28, pp. 276 - 287
- Euler's three works on map projections, E490, E491, and E492, were published in German translation at the end of the 19th Century in:
Euler, Leonhard. Drei Abhandlungen uber Kartenprojection / von Leonhard Euler (1777) ; herausgegeben von A. Wangerin. Leipzig : W. Englemann, 1898
- A handwritten French translation of this treatise can be found in the library of the observatory in
Uccle, near Brussels.
Documents Available:
- Original Publication: E491
- A 19th Century German translation of E490, E491, and E492, Drei Abhandlungen uber Kartenprojection, is available here on Google Books.
- English translation (George Heine): E491
- German translation (Alexander Aycock and Artur Diener): E491
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