EULER, J. ALBERT. - THE LAW OF BILLIARD TRAJECTORIES - THE PHYSICS OF THE BILLIARD BALL.

Recherches des Mouvemens d'un Globe sur un Plan horizontal. (1.-) Seond Mémoire. (2 Papers).

(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1765 u. 1767). 4to. No wrappers, as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres" 1758, tome XIV a. XVI, pp. 284-353 a. 2 folded engraved plates + pp. 261-284 a. 1 folded engraved plate.

First printing of Johann Albert Euler's importent paper in which he set forth the so-called "Theorem of Johann-Albert Euler", stating that the trajectory of a ball is a parabola followed by a straight line.

The eldest son of Leonhard Euler was a prominent geometer in his own right. In 1758, Johann-Albert Euler (1734-1800) published a study of the motion of a sphere on an horizontal plane in the presence of Newtonian friction. His main result would be rediscovered independently by Gaspard Coriolis as part of his authoritative theoretical work on the topic: Théorie mathématique des effets du jeu de billard (1835).









Johann Albrecht Euler, born in St. Petersburg 1732 was a Swiss-Russian astronomer and mathematician and he was the first child born to the great Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler.

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