Rotation of a Rigid Body

Abstract

MY previous communication about the rotating ellipsoid to this journal, has attracted the attention of M. Radau. “One touch of Nature makes the whole world kin.” In a note addressed to me full of true dignity, this gentleman has made much more than sufficient reparation for his previous trifling act of inadvertence, and states that to his great regret he had misunderstood my meaning, in the passage of my memoir in question, and that “sa critique n'est pas fondée.” I, on my part, deeply lament the unnecessary tone of acerbity in which my reference to this criticism was couched, and wish I could recall every ungracious expression which it contains. ‘When I spoke that, I was ill-tempered too.”