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A Comet of the Enlightenment - Anders Johan Lexell's Life and Discoveries (Hardcover, 2014 ed.) Loot Price: R3,632
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A Comet of the Enlightenment - Anders Johan Lexell's Life and Discoveries (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): Johan C.-E. Sten

A Comet of the Enlightenment - Anders Johan Lexell's Life and Discoveries (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)

Johan C.-E. Sten

Series: Vita Mathematica, 17

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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. 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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Imprint: Birkhauser Verlag AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: Vita Mathematica, 17
Release date: June 2014
First published: 2014
Authors: Johan C.-E. Sten
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 300
Edition: 2014 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-00617-8
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > History of mathematics
Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Theoretical & mathematical astronomy
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LSN: 3-319-00617-7
Barcode: 9783319006178

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