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A Comet of the Enlightenment: Anders Johan Lexell's Life and Discoveries
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Birkhauser
Publication date June 11, 2014
Pages 300
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9783319006178
ISBN-10 3319006177
Dimensions 0.75 by 6.50 by 9.25 in.
Weight 1.30 lbs.
Original list price $129.00
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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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9783319006178 | details & prices | 300 pages | 6.50 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $129.00
About: 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.

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