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TCoCD Pictures Miscellaneous Money Leonard Euler

Leonard Euler (10 SFR)

10 SFR: front (click for larger image, 143k)
10 SFR: front (click for larger image, 143k)

10 SFR: back (click for larger image, 159k)
10 SFR: back (click for larger image, 159k)

country Switzerland
value 10 Swiss Franc
size 137 * 66 mm
valid November 05, 1979 to May 1, 2020

Pastel drawing by Emanuel Handmann from 1753.

Details:

front: involute gear (click for larger image, 93k)
(click for larger image, 93k)
front: involute gear invented by Euler
(involute gear on Wikipedia and a german article)
front: Euler Diagrams (click for larger image, 93k)
(click for larger image, 93k)
front: Euler Diagrams demonstrating syllogisms
(Euler Diagrams on Wikipedia)
back: planetary system (click for larger image, 190k)
(click for larger image, 190k)
back: planetary system with the sun, the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn with their moons and Comet Halley.
back: optical path through a combination of lenses (click for larger image, 61k)
(click for larger image, 61k)
back: optical path through a combination of lenses to minimize speric and chromatic abberation
back: water turbine (click for larger image, 167k)
(click for larger image, 167k)
back: water turbine, efficiency factor 71%, contrived by Euler

TCoCD Pictures Miscellaneous Money Leonard Euler

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