E727 -- Accuratior evolutio problematis de linea brevissima in superficie quacunque ducenda

(A more accurate treatment of the problem of drawing the shortest line on a surface)

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Publication:

Originally published in Nova Acta Academiae Scientarum Imperialis Petropolitinae 15, 1806, pp. 44-54
Opera Omnia: Series 1, Volume 25, pp. 269 - 279

Documents Available:

Original Publication: E727
Jordan Bell of Carleton University in Ontario has prepared a translation of E727.