Abstract
THOUGH Wargentin in his lifetime enjoyed a reputation which was both great and widespread—he was a foreign member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, of the Royal Society, of the St. Petersburg Academy and other similar bodies—he is probably little remembered outside his native land except by astronomers. Even in that circle he is known, perhaps exclusively, as an assiduous student of Jupiter's satellites in the days befdre Laplace investigated them as a dynamical system. In this voluminous memoir Wargentin is shown as a prominent figure in Swedish science in the great days of Linnæus and Scheele. In his versatility and by certain specific activities he is related to the Halley of the preceding generation. The memoir is in Swedish, but it includes (pp. 310-336) a résumé in Frencb.
Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin
Kungl. Vetenskapsakademiens Sekreterare och Astronom 1749–1783. Av N. V. E. Nordenmark. Pp. 464. (Uppsala: Almquist and Wiksells Boktryekeri A.-B., 1939.)
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PLUMMER, H. Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin. Nature 146, 477–478 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146477a0
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