Leonhard Euler's early lunar theories 1725--1752

DOI10.1007/S00407-012-0112-YMaRDI QIDQ354151zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andreas Verdun

Publication date 18 July 2013

Published in Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-012-0112-y

zbMATH Keywords

lunar tableslunar theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to history and biography (01-02) History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of dynamical systems and ergodic theory (37-03) History of mechanics of particles and systems (70-03) Celestial mechanics (70F15)

Review text

This is the first of a series of three papers in which the author describes Euler's work on the motion of the Moon. It is mainly based on an analysis of Euler's notebooks written in the period 1722--1730. Euler tried to describe the motion of the Moon in terms of two simultaneously acting centripetal forces and Huygens centrifugal theorem. The next two papers will deal with Euler's work in the period 1730--1744, in which he further developed his methods, and the work in the period 1744--1752, when he developed his mature and successful lunar theory.

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