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Euler's Master Thesis

At the age of 16, Leonhard Euler defended his Master Thesis, where he discussed and compared Descartes' and Newton's approaches to planet motion. I don't know anything else about it. In particular, I don’t know which position did the young Euler support.

Is there any modern account of this dissertation ? In English or French ...

Denis Serre
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