An Update of the Paper, ‘On known and less known relations of Leonhard Euler with Poland’ (DOI: 10.4467/23921749SHS.16.005.6148)
An Update of the Paper, ‘On known and less known relations of Leonhard Euler with Poland’ (DOI: 10.4467/23921749SHS.16.005.6148)
Author(s): Veronika Girininkaitė, Andreas Kleinert, Roman SznajderSubject(s): History, Social Sciences, Education, History of ideas, History of Education, Pedagogy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: J.A. Euler; M. Poczobutt-Odlanicki; A.J. Lexell; comets
Summary/Abstract: In this note we publish a short letter from Leonhard Euler’s son, Johann Albrecht Euler, the Secretary of the Imperial Academy in St. Petersburg, to Marcin Poczobutt-Odlanicki, the Vilnius astronomer. The fate of this letter seemed unknown, but we know its content now. The main news in this correspondence was the discovery of a comet by the astronomer Anders Johan Lexell.
Journal: Studia Historiae Scientiarum
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 22
- Page Range: 293-299
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English