Euler’s rotation theorem
A theorem formulated by the Swiss-German mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler (1707–83) and proved by him in 1775, which states that any displacement of a rigid body in three-dimensional space, such that one point on the body remains fixed, is equivalent to a single rotation of the body about an axis passing through the fixed point, known as the Euler pole or ... ...
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