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Euler won the prize, but failed to explain
the effect, and said: ”It appears to be es-
tablished by indisputable evidence that the
secular inequality of the moon’s mean mo-
tion cannot be produced by the forces of
gravitation.”
The same subject was again proposed
for a prize which was shared by Lagrange [1]
and Euler, neither finding a solution, while
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