The column under its own weight was considered by Euler in three famous papers (1778a, 1778b, 1778c). In his first paper, Euler (1778a) concluded that the column simply supported under its own weight would never lose its stability. In his second paper on this topic Euler (1778b) described his previous result as paradoxical and suspicious (see Panovko and Gubanova (1965); Nicolai, (1955); Todhunter and Pierson (1866) on this topic). In the next, third in series, paper, Euler (1778c) found that he had made a conceptual mistake and the “infinite buckling load” conclusion was proved to be wrong. Unfortunately, however, he made a numerical mistake and instead of the first eigenvalue, he calculated a second one. Correct solutions were derived by Dinnik (1912), 132 years later, as well as Willers (1941), Engelhardt (1954) and Frich-Fay (1966). Numerical solution with arbitrary accuracy was given by Eisenberger (1991).