``A most elegant property: on the early history of Lexell's theorem

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-64551-3_8MaRDI QIDQ4609485zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eisso J. Atzema

Publication date 3 April 2018

Published in Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64551-3_8

zbMATH Keywords

Eulerspherical geometryspherical trigonometryLexell

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

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