- No. 1Euler's Argument for the Tide-Raising Force, Reconstructed: One Segment of a Source, Passage by Passage, beside Its Formal Reconstruction
One segment of a historical source is taken through its argument: the end of §22 and §§24 to 29 of Euler's Inquisitio physica in causam fluxus ac refluxus maris (Eneström 57), seven pages of Opera omnia II 31, in which Euler derives the force by which the sun or the moon tends to raise the tides. The segment is divided into …
Gerd Graßhoff · 10 November 2026 · version 1.0 · PDF, 11 pages
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