Open AccessThe 18th-century battle over lunar motion
Author(s) -
Siegfried Bodenmann
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
physics today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.594
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1945-0699
pISSN - 0031-9228
DOI - 10.1063/1.3293410
Subject(s) - battle , motion (physics) , astrobiology , astronomy , euler's formula , orbit (dynamics) , feature (linguistics) , physics , geology , history , theoretical physics , philosophy , ancient history , classical mechanics , aerospace engineering , mathematics , engineering , mathematical analysis , linguistics
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
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