Essai d'une théorie du Satellite de Vénus
Year of Conception: ?
Year of Writing: July 1774
Year of Publication: 1773/1775
Subject: Astronomy
Publication: Essai d'une théorie du Satellite de Vénus. Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie royale des sciences de Berlin, année 1773/1775, 222-250.(1)
Description:
Under the assumption that the allegedly observed moon of Venus
is not a trick of the light, Lambert calculates its orbit and deduces
its theory. (As it would later turn out, the satellite of Venus is an
optical effect)
Reviews: ADB 1776, 84-85(6)
; GGA 1776, 44-45(4)