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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