English Title
Notice on the subject of Research on the precession of the equinoxes
Enestrom Number
180
Fuss Index
678
Original Language
French
Content Summary
Euler cedes priority to d'Alembert for the first resolution of the problem of precession of the equinoxes and nutation of the earth's axis (solved by Euler in E171) and for the first published example of an equation whose graph exhibits a cuspidal point of the second kind (see E169).
Published as
Journal article
Published Date
1752
Written Date
1752
Original Source Citation
Mémoires de l'académie des sciences de Berlin, Volume 6, pp. 412.
Opera Omnia Citation
Series 2, Volume 29, pp.124-124.
Record Created
2018-09-25
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