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 | | In 1753, Euler, in Theoria motus lunae, attempted to solve by analytic function the motions of three interacting bodies, and, though that is not possible by those means, he succeeded in reducing "the relative movements of the Sun, the Earth, and the Moon to a series of elegant equations" (Sobel 1995:970). |
 | | In 1747, Maupertius showed that the impact of a collision between two objects can be analyzed by the 'principle of least action,' in which the path of the motion will follow that which minimizes the action. |
 | | In 1753, Carl Linné, better known as Carolus Linneas, published Species plantarum, in which he distinguished plants in terms of genera and species. |
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