The Paris Prize Pieces
The Paris prize competition was a well-known event put on by the Paris Academy. Initially an annual challenge,
budget difficulties later forced the Academy to offer the challenge only every two years; by the time of the
Academy's dissolution in 1793, the competition was largely defunct.
Euler submitted 15 pieces for the Paris prize competition between 1727 and 1772. The prize submissions have
been arranged under three categories, as shown below:
- Piece qui a remporte le prix de l'academie royale des sciences:
- E4: Meditationes super problemate nautico, quod illustrissima regia Parisiensis Academia scientarum proposuit
- E78: Dissertation sur la meilleure construction du cabestan
- E120: Recherches sur la question des inegalites du mouvement de Saturne et de Jupiter
- E150: Meditationes in quaestionem observationibus temporis momentum determinandi
- E413: De promotione navium sine vi venti (Memoire sur la manier de suppleer a l'action du vent)
- E415: Sur le roulis et le tangage
- Pièces qui ont remporté le prix de l'académie royale des sciences de Paris:
- E34: Dissertatio de igne in qua ejus natura et proprietates explicantur
- E57: Inquisitio physica in causam fluxes ac refluxus maris
- E108: De observatione inclinationis magneticae dissertatio, illustrissimae academiae regiae scientarum Parisinae aequissimo judicio, pro anno 1743.
- E109: Dissertatio de magnete.
- Recueil des pieces qui ont remporte les prix de l'academie royale des sciences:
- E384: Recherches sur les inegalites de Jupiter et de Saturne
- E414: Investigatio perturbationum quibus planetarum motus ob actionem eorum mutuam afficiuntur.
- E416: Meditationes in quaestionem utrum motus medius planetarum semper maneat aeque velox, an successu temporis quampiam mutationem patiatur? & quaenam sit ejus causa?
- E485: Reponse a la question proposee par l'academie royale des sciences de Paris, pour l'annee 1770.
- E486: Reponse a la question proposee par l'academie royale des sciences de Paris, pour l'annee 1772.