Translation talk:Investigation of the letter of Leibniz
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| Edition: | Memoires de l'academie des sciences de Berlin, 6, 52-62 (1752). |
| Contributor(s): | WillowW |
| Level of progress: | Text completed by contributor 
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| Notes: | Not checked |
A remarkably nasty summary of how the Berlin Academy hounded Samuel König for the original of a letter by Leibniz, so as to establish the undisputed priority of their President, Maupertuis, for the principle of least action.
The manuscript from which I worked may be found here. The original has also been added to the French Wikisource.
This translation of Euler's Exposé concernant de la lettre de M. de Leibnitz, alleguée par M. le Prof. Koenig (1752) is released into the public domain. Use it well. WillowW 10:52, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
The original title is
Exposé concernant l'examen de la lettre de M. de Leibnitz, alleguée par M. le Prof. Koenig, dan le mois de mars 1751. Des actes de Leipzig, a l'occasion du principe de la moindre action.
whose translation is roughly
- Report of the investigation of the letter of Leibniz, as alleged by Prof. König in Actes de Leipzig (March 1751), on the subject of the principle of least action.