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Re: Plumb-line horizon vs. geocentric horizon
From: UNK
Date: 2005 Feb 4, 10:55 -0500
From: UNK
Date: 2005 Feb 4, 10:55 -0500
On Friday, February 04, 2005 10:38 AM , Frank Reed asked: > Alex you wrote: > "Euler comes to the same conclusion, > after careful consideration of all other > possibilities. This is in his wonderful book > 'Letters to a German princess' " > > Do you happen to know... who was she? Which principality? "During his stay in Berlin (1741-66), he was asked to provide some tuition in Natural Philosophy for Princess d'Anhalt Dessau, a niece of Frederick the Great. These justly renowned letters are the fruit of that royal request." see http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/185506507X/102-8412219-7908128
