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A short history of astronomy (1898)

Berry, Arthur,b. 1862 · London, J. Murray · leaf 369

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loped up to the present day. Two years later (1766) Frederick II., at the suggestionof DAlembert, asked Lagrange to succeed Euler (whohad just returned to St. Petersburg) as the head of themathematical section of the Berlin Academy, giving as areason that the greatest king in Europe wished to… … LAGRANGE. [To face p. 305. § 237] Life of Lagrange 305 Lagrange accepted this magnificently expressed invitationand spent the next 21 years at Berlin. During this period he produced an extraordinary seriesof papers on astronomy, on general dynamics, and on avariety of subjects in pure mathematics.…

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