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The following reviews are reprinted in roughly the order of their appearance. They describe aspects of Euler’s life and circumstances as they became known to the general reader.
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The book reviewed here is Die Deutsch-Russische Begegnung und Leonhard Euler. Beiträge zu den Beziehungen zwischen der deutschen und der russischen Wissenschaft und Kultur im 18. Jahrhundert, edited by E. Winter and associates, Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1958. The review first appeared in Isis 51 (1960): 115.
The book reviewed here is Die Berliner und die Petersburger Akademie der Wissenschaften im Briefwechsel Leonhard Eulers. Volume 1. Der Briefwechsel L. Eulers mit G. F. Müller, 1735–1767, edited by A. P. Juskevi, E. Winter, & P. Hoffmann, Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1959. The review first appeared in Isis 52 (1961): 113–114.
The volume reviewed is Die Berliner und die Petersburger Akademie der Wissenschaften im Briefwechsel Leonhard Eulers. Volume 2. Der Briefwechsel L. Eulers mit Nartov, Razumovskij, Schumacher, Teplov und der Petersburger Akademie, 1730–1763,edited by A. P. Juskevic, E. Winter, P. Hoff-Mann, & Ju. Ch. Kopelevic, Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1961.
The review is reprinted from Isis 53 (1962): 411–413.
The volume reviewed is Die Berliner and die Petersburger Akademie der Wissenschaften im Briefwechsel Leonhard Eulers. Volume 3. Wissenschaftliche und wissenschaftsorganisatorische Korrespondenzen 1726–1774, edited by A. P. Juskevic & E. Winter, Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1976.
The review is reprinted from Isis 69 (1978): 301–303.
Cf. A. P. Youschkevitch, “The concept of function until the middle of the nineteenth century”, Archive for History of Exact Sciences16 (1976): 37–85.
Cf. H. J. M. Bos, “Differentials, higher-order differentials and the derivative in the Leibnizian calculus”, Archive for History of Exact Sciences14 (1974): 1–90.
Cf. A. Speiser, Leonhard Euler und die deutsche Philosophie,Zürich, Orell Füssli Verlag, 1939, and R. Calinger. “Euler’s Letters to a Princess of Germany as an expression of his mature scientific outlook”, Archive for History of Exact Sciences15 (1975): 211–233.
The review is reprinted from Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences 27 (1977): 292–296. A somewhat rougher text had appeared in Eighteenth-Century Studies 9 (1976): 627–634.
The volume reviewed is Manuscripta Euleriana archivi academiae scientiarum URSS,Tomus I: Descriptio scientifica,ediderunt J. Ch. Kopelevi, M. V. Krutikova, G. K. Mikhailov & N. M. Raskin (Acta archivi Academiae scientiarum URSS, Fasc. 17), Moscow & Leningrad, Izdatel’stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1962.
The volume reviewed is Manuscripta Euleriana archivi academiae scientiarum URSS,Tomus II: Opera mechanica, Volumen I, edidit G. K. Mikhailov (Acta archivi academiae scientarium URSS, Fasc. 20), Moscow & Leningrad, Izdatel’stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1965.
The review is reprinted from Isis 58 (1967): 273–274, and Scripta Mathematica 28 (1968): 211–212.
The volume reviewed is Leonhardi Euleri Commentationes mechanicae [ad] principia mechanica [pertinentes] (Leonhardi Euleri Opera omnia (II)5), edited by Joachim Otto Fleckenstein, Zürich, Orell Füssli Verlag, 1957.
The volume reviewed is LEONHARDI EULERI Commentationes mechanicae ad theoriam motus punctorum pertinentes,Volumen Prius (Leonhardi Euleri Opera omnia (II) 6),edited by Charles Blanc, Zürich, Orell Füssli Verlag, 1957.
A.-C. Clairaut, “Sur quelques principes qui donnent la solution d’un grand nombre de problèmes de dynamique”, Histoire de l’Académie des Sciences avec les Mémoires pour 1742 (Paris): 1–42 (1745).
The volumes here reviewed are LEONHARDI EULERI Scientia navalis (Leonhardi Euleri Opera omnia (11)18–19), edited by C. Truesdell, and Leonhardi Euleri Commentationes mechanicae et astronomicae ad scientiam navalem pertinentes (LEONHARDI EULERI Opera omnia (11)20–21), edited by W. Habicht, Basel, Ore11 Füssli Verlag, 1967, 1972, 1974, 1978. For Volumes 18 and 19 Mr. Habicht has provided an excellent analysis in his preface to Volume 21.
The text is condensed and recast from reviews published in Centaurus 21 (1977): 76–77, and 26 (1983): 323–335.
G. K. Mikhailov, Manuscripta Euleriana Archivi Academiae scientiarum URSS. Tomus II, Okra mechanica Volume 1, Moscow & Leningrad, Nauka, 1965. See part bII, above, of this essay.
EULER’s Opera omnia reprint the Mechanica in Volumes (II) 1–2, edited by P. Stäckel. The text above derives in large part from a review published in Centaurus 26 (1983) 323–335.
Manuscripts which Euler withheld from publication but which were published in the collections entitled Commentationes arithmeticae collectae (St. Petersburg, 1849) and Opera postuma, 2 vols. (St. Petersburg, 1862).
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Truesdell, C. (1984). Genius Turns the Establishment to Profit: Euler. In: An Idiot’s Fugitive Essays on Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8185-3_33
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