Euler publishes Mechanics, a treatise that, for the first time, systematically treats the geometric language adopted by Newton in the Principia, translating it into analytical terms (mathematical analysis). Leibniz had already begun the work in 1689, and only Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar completed a modern exposition, in 1983, in his “Newton’s Principia for the General Reader” (although what he means by “general reader” is certainly not what the general reader means…).
