The 18th-century battle over lunar motion
Recovered historical discussion from The 18th-century battle over lunar motion.
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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