(6 novembre) 26 octobre 1738 (1) : À la Royal Society :
The translation of a letter from Mons[ieu]r Clairaut in French, dated at Paris, Oct. 2 1738 [cf. 2 octobre 1738 (1)] serving to communicate a mathematical treatise on the figure of the planets, which have a rotation about their axes [C. 18], was read. Wherein he desires that the same may be translated into English, and published in the Philosophical Transactions. Thanks were ordered, and the tract was put into the hands of Mr Machin to extract so much as might be proper for reading before the Society (RS, JBC 16, p. 295).
Abréviations
C. 18 : Clairaut (Alexis-Claude), « An inquiry concerning the Figure of such Planets as resolve about an axis, supposing the density continually to vary, from the Centre towards the Surface », Philosophical Transactions, Vol. XL (1737-1738), Londres, 1741, n° 449 (Aug.-Sept. 1738), pp. 277-306 [Télécharger] [2 octobre 1738 (1)] [(3 mars 1737) 20 février 1736] [15 septembre 1737 (1)] [Plus].
RS : Royal Society, London.
Courcelle (Olivier), « (6 novembre) 26 octobre 1738 (1) : À la Royal Society », Chronologie de la vie de Clairaut (1713-1765) [En ligne], http://www.clairaut.com/npo6novembrepf26octobre1738po1pf.html [Notice publiée le 10 juillet 2009].
