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200 12$aA Comet of the Enlightenment $eAnders Johan Lexell's Life and Discoveries /$fby Johan C.-E. Stén
205   $a1st ed. 2014.
210  1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Birkhäuser,$d2014.
215   $a1 online resource (309 p.)
225 1 $aVita Mathematica,$x1013-0330  ;$v17
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a3-319-00617-7 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $a1 Setting the scene -- 2 The humble beginnings -- 3 New prospects in Saint Petersburg -- 4 Formation of an Academician -- 5 Professor of astronomy -- 6 Professional relations and correspondence -- 7 Academic events in Saint Petersburg -- 8 Lexell?s work in mathematics -- 9 Academic Journey 1780?1781 -- 10 Return to an Academy in crisis -- 12 A sketch of Lexell?s personality -- 13 Conclusion -- 14 Appendices.
330   $aThe Finnish mathematician and astronomer Anders Johan Lexell (1740?1784) was a long-time close collaborator as well as the academic successor of Leonhard Euler at the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. Lexell was initially invited by Euler from his native town of Abo (Turku) in Finland to Saint Petersburg to assist in the mathematical processing of the astronomical data of the forthcoming transit of Venus of 1769. A few years later he became an ordinary member of the Academy. This is the first-ever full-length biography devoted to Lexell and his prolific scientific output. His rich correspondence especially from his grand tour to Germany, France and England reveals him as a lucid observer of the intellectual landscape of enlightened Europe. In the skies, a comet, a minor planet and a crater on the Moon named after Lexell also perpetuate his memory.
410  0$aVita Mathematica,$x1013-0330  ;$v17
606   $aMathematics
606   $aHistory
606   $aGeometry
606   $aAstronomy
606   $aAstrophysics
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606   $aAstronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P22006
615  0$aMathematics.
615  0$aHistory.
615  0$aGeometry.
615  0$aAstronomy.
615  0$aAstrophysics.
615 14$aHistory of Mathematical Sciences.
615 24$aGeometry.
615 24$aAstronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.
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700   $aStén$b Johan C.-E$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0721670
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