Book ID: CBB000330609

Russia's Search for America, 1716--1732 (2002)

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Smith, J. L. (Author)


White Stone Press


Publication Date: 2002
Edition Details: Edited with an introduction by Smith, J. L.
Physical Details: ix + 183 pp.
Language: English

Description Four introductory chapters plus translations of letters from members of the expeditions including the geodesist Mikhail Gvozdev.


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Authors & Contributors
Steller, Georg Wilhelm
Postnikov, Aleksey V.
Marvin W. Falk
Torge, Wolfgang
Tigner, Amy L.
Suckow, Christian
Journals
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
科学史研究 Kagakusi Kenkyu (History of Science)
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Gastronomica: The Journal of Culinary History
Common-Place
Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
Publishers
Walter de Gruyter
Verlag Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle
University of Chicago Press
University of Alaska Press
Scarecrow Press
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Travel; exploration
Geodesy
Geological surveys
Scientific expeditions
Geography
Correspondence and corresponding
People
Humboldt, Alexander von
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Wessel, Caspar
Tradescant, John
Tradescant, family
Steller, Georg Wilhelm
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Edo period (Japan, 1603-1868)
Enlightenment
20th century, early
17th century
Places
Russia
France
United States
Alaska (U.S.)
Peru
Naples (Italy)
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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