A Comet of the Enlightenment : Anders Johan Lexell's Life and Discoveries
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Vita Mathematica
ISBN-10
3319006177
ISBN-13
9783319006178
Publisher
Birkhauser Verlag AG
Imprint
Birkhauser Verlag AG
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 11th, 2014
Print length
300 Pages
Weight
606 grams
Dimensions
24.40 x 16.50 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
History of mathematicsTheoretical & mathematical astronomyTheoretical and mathematical astronomy
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The Finnish mathematician and astronomer Anders Johan Lexell (1740–1784) was a long-time close collaborator as well as the academic successor of Leonhard Euler at the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg.
The Finnish mathematician and astronomer Anders Johan Lexell (1740-1784) was a long-time close collaborator as well as the academic successor of Leonhard Euler at the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. Lexell was initially invited by Euler from his native town of Abo (Turku) in Finland to Saint Petersburg to assist in the mathematical processing of the astronomical data of the forthcoming transit of Venus of 1769. A few years later he became an ordinary member of the Academy. This is the first-ever full-length biography devoted to Lexell and his prolific scientific output. His rich correspondence especially from his grand tour to Germany, France and England reveals him as a lucid observer of the intellectual landscape of enlightened Europe. In the skies, a comet, a minor planet and a crater on the Moon named after Lexell also perpetuate his memory.
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