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Re: Plumb-line horizon vs. geocentric horizon
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 Feb 4, 10:55 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 Feb 4, 10:55 -0500
Frank, On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Frank Reed wrote: > Do you happen to know... who was she? Which principality? I will find out next time I go to our central library (we have an English translation of these letters). Some young girl who wanted him as a science teacher, but he refused to come and taught her by writing letters... ... Oups! Looking into the catalog right now, while replying your e-mail, I suddenly found that we also have "The Euler-Mayer correspondence 1751-1755. A new perspective on the XVII century advances in the lunar theory", which I never noticed earlier. So probably I will go to the library today:-) Alex.