English Title
Meditation on experiments made recently on the firing of a cannon
Enestrom Number
853
Original Language
Latin
Archive Notes
An English translation of excerpts of this work (by Florian Cajori) appears in David E. Smith's Source Book in Mathematics (1929, McGraw-Hill), pp. 95-99.
Content Summary
This article has achieved lasting fame in mathematical footnote history by being the first printed source in which e is used to represent the base of the natural logarithm. Euler wrote this paper at the end of 1727 or at the beginning of 1728, when he was just 21 years old, describing seven experiments performed between August 21 and September 2, 1727.
Published as
Collection article
Published Date
1862
Original Source Citation
Opera Postuma, Volume 2, pp. 800-804.
Opera Omnia Citation
Series 2, Volume 14, pp.468-477.
Record Created
2018-09-25
