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    Anders Johan Lexell (24 December 1740 – 11 December [O.S. 30 November] 1784) was a Finnish-Swedish astronomer, mathematician, and physicist who spent...
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    after Swedish-Russian mathematician and astronomer Anders Johan Lexell. To the northeast is the walled plain Walther, and to the south is Orontius, another...
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  • D/1770 L1, popularly known as Lexell's Comet after its orbit computer Anders Johan Lexell, was a comet discovered by astronomer Charles Messier in June...
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    for Anders Johan Lexell, who presented a paper about it c. 1777 (published 1784) including both a trigonometric proof and a geometric one. Lexell's colleague...
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    Leonhard Euler (category Blind scholars and academics)
    discussing the newly discovered planet Uranus and its orbit with Anders Johan Lexell when he collapsed and died from a brain hemorrhage. Jacob von Staehlin [de]...
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  • Anders Johan Lexell was a Russian astronomer and mathematician. Lexell may also refer to: Jan Lexell, a Swedish physician and academic. 2004 Lexell, a...
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  • Nauchnij, on the Crimean peninsula, and later named for Swedish-Russian astronomer and mathematician Anders Johan Lexell. Lexell is a member of the Flora family...
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    had already begun to suspect otherwise. Finnish-Swedish astronomer Anders Johan Lexell, working in Russia, was the first to compute the orbit of the new...
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    Catherine the Great to observe the transit in Saint Petersburg with Anders Johan Lexell, while other members of the Russian Academy of Sciences went to eight...
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    Catherine the Great (category Burials at Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg)
    Euler and Peter Simon Pallas from Berlin and Anders Johan Lexell from Sweden to the Russian capital. Catherine enlisted Voltaire to her cause, and corresponded...
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  • pioneer (1934–) Anders Johan Lexell – mathematician, astronomer (1740–1784) Ernst Lindelöf – mathematician, researcher of function theory and topology (1870–1946)...
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  • English reforming physician and medical ethicist (died 1804) December 24 – Anders Johan Lexell, Finnish-Swedish astronomer and mathematician (died 1784)...
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    Venus, which he did together with Anders Johan Lexell. In 1773, the Jesuit order was dissolved by Pope Clement XIV, and consequently he was removed as Court...
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  • Guy Pingré in Haiti William Wales and Joseph Dymond at Prince of Wales Fort on Hudson Bay Anders Johan Lexell and Christian Mayer in Saint Petersburg;...
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    quadrilateral. One direction of this theorem was proved by Anders Johan Lexell in 1782. Lexell showed that in a spherical quadrilateral inscribed in a small...
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  • (1879–1956) Anders Johan Lexell – astronomer, mathematician, and physicist; best known for work in the fields of celestial mechanics and polygonometry...
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  • and geodesist, measured the Krasovsky ellipsoid, a coordinate system used in the USSR and the post-Soviet states Anders Johan Lexell, astronomer and mathematician...
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    measure the rotation of the Milky Way Anders Johan Lexell, mathematician, researcher of celestial mechanics and comet astronomy, proved that Uranus is...
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    Asclepi, Cassini, Anders Johan Lexell, Leonhard Euler, Pingré, Adrien-Marie Legendre and Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel. Lexell, Asclepi, Pingré and Bessel were especially...
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    Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), Anders Johan Lexell, Christian Goldbach, Georg Bernhard Bilfinger, Nicholas Bernoulli (1695–1726) and Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782)...
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    Petrovitch, Maria Fedorovna and their children Silhouette of David Roentgen in the imperial cabinet Peter Simon Pallas Anders Johan Lexell Recueil de cent silhouettes...
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    discovered in 1966, was named after him Anders Johan Lexell, astronomer and mathematician; researcher of celestial mechanics and comet astronomy; proved that Uranus...
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  • they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the IAU's naming...
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  • Lemonnier Nicole-Reine Lepaute Jean Antoine Letronne Tullio Levi-Civita Anders Johan Lexell Aloysius Lilius Eric Mervyn Lindsay Hans Lippershey Joseph Johann...
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  • Anaxagoras Anaximander Anders Boserup Anders Flodström Anders Johan Lexell Anders Jonas Ångström Anders Karlsson (physicist) Anders Knutsson Ångström Anderson's...
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  • the International Astronomical Union includes the diameter of the crater and the person the crater is named for. Where a crater formation has associated...
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  • Encyclopedia of Science and Technology is a history of science by Isaac Asimov, written as the biographies of initially 1000 scientists and later with over 1500...
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    James Cook: HMS Endeavour grounds on the Great Barrier Reef. July 1 – Lexell's Comet (D/1770 L1) passes the Earth at a distance of 2,184,129 kilometres...
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