The 18th-century battle over lunar motion

• Autores: Siegfried Bodenmann
• Localización: Physics today, ISSN 0031-9228, Vol. 63, Nº. 1, 2010, pág. 27
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In a dispute with more than just scientific import, Alexis Clairaut, Leonhard Euler, and Jean le Rond d'Alembert each employed their own strategies to establish that they were the first to understand a puzzling feature of the Moon's orbit.