EULER, (JOHANN ALBRECHT).

Premier (- Cinquieme) Mémoire de L'Influence de la Chaleur sur la Réfraction. (5 Parts).

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1769). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres", 1762, tome XVIII. Pp. 279-342 a. 1 folded engraved plate.

Johann Albrecht Euler (1734 - 1800) was a mathematician and the first child of Leonhard Euler himself. In 1754 he became a member of the Berlin Academy. On Euler's return to St. Petersburg in 1765, he was appointed as the chair of physics at the St. Petersburg Academy. In St. Petersburg, he lived in his father's house; Johann Albrecht's family occupied the ground floor. He won a total of 7 international academy prizes.

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