A Eulogy in Honour of Anders Johan Lexell, an 18th Century Finnish Mathematician

Year: 2016 Authors: Joonas Ilmavirta; Johan C.-E. Stén

Core claim

Fredrik Pryss’s poem is a high-quality classical eulogy that accurately foresaw Lexell’s rise to fame, even if it did not predict the details of his later work.

Topics

Latin elegiac poetry, Anders Johan Lexell, classical reception, mathematical biography

Domains

history of mathematics, geometry, optics, poetry, literary translation, classical antiquity

Methods

textual analysis, historical contextualization, translation, meter analysis

Media

Latin poem, English prose translation, portrait of Lexell

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