Mémoires de l'académie royale des sciences de Paris
(Memoirs of the royal academy of sciences in Paris)
The Mémoires was the first and most prominent journal published by the
Paris Academy (Académie royale des sciences de Paris).
The first volume was produced in 1699, and publication continued until the Academy's dissolution by the Jacobin
Convention in 1793. In the middle of the 18th century, however, the Paris Academy was the most admired institution
of its kind in Europe, and the Mémoires was its most well-known journal. Many academies patterned
themselves after the Paris Academy, and many journals were similarly patterned after the Mémoires.
Euler published five articles here, which are shown below:
- E267: Extrait d'une lettre de M. Euler ecrite a M. Du Hamel le 3 Fevrier 1756
- E363: Precis d'une theorie generale de la dioptrique
- E520: Essai d'une theorie de la resistance qu'eprouve la proue d'un vaisseau dans son mouvement
- E521: Theoremes analytiques. Extraits de differents lettres de M. Euler a M. le Marquis de Condorcet
- E579: Calculs sur les ballons aerostatiques, faits par le feu M. Euler, tels qu'on les a trouves sur son ardoise, apres sa mort arrivee le 7 septembre 1783