E492 -- De proiectione geographica Deslisliana in mappa generali imperii russici usitata
(On de Lisle's geographic projection and its use)
Summary:
According to the records, it was presented to the St. Petersburg Academy on October 9, 1775.
Publication:
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Originally published in Acta Academiae Scientarum Imperialis Petropolitinae 1777, 1778, pp. 143-153
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Opera Omnia: Series 1, Volume 28, pp.
- 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
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handwritten French translation of this treatise can be found in the library of the observatory in
Uccle, near Brussels.
Documents Available:
- Original Publication: E492
- A 19th Century German translation of E490, E491, and E492, Drei Abhandlungen uber Kartenprojection, is available here on Google Books.
- A translation of E492 has been prepared by George Heine, who has made his work available to the Euler Archive.
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