Formeln und Sterne: Korrespondenz deutscher Gelehrter mit der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu St. Petersburg: Briefe von Johann Wilhelm Andreas Pfaff, Johann Sigismund Gottfried Huth, Wilhelm Struve, Martin Bartels, Magnus Georg Paucker aus der Autographensammlung von Wilhelm Stieda in der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig (2013)
Reich, Karin (Editor)
Roussanova, Elena (Editor)
Shaker
Physical Details: 435 pp.; ill.
Language: German
Formulas and stars "- as so" romantic "the editors have felt the content of the published correspondence of mathematicians and astronomers with the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. The letter writers is predominantly in the first half of the 19th century in Russia acting scholars with a German cultural background, that is, it comes in this publication focuses on the German-Russian scientific relations. In the letters not only mathematical and astronomical topics, they also grant a deep insight into the multifaceted academic life in Russia and provide important background information. It's all about content that is for scientific, educational, social and cultural history of significant value. From the letters, all of which are present in the original German language and mainly to the former Permanent Secretaries of the St. Petersburg Academy - Nicholas foot and his son Paul Heinrich feet - have been addressed, we learn a lot about the Russian universities in their development and expansion phase, through many scholars who have worked in this time in Russia, through its connections in the scientific world as well as about their work, publications, scientific interests and much more. The editors shall submit not only an annotated edition of the correspondence, but they embed these correspondences in detail in the respective historical context and link them to the biographies of scholars. The published letters are from the collection of autographs of famous Leipzig economist and economic historian Wilhelm Stieda. This collection is now kept in the University Library in Leipzig. Stieda began his career in the Russian Ostseegouvernements and then continued it in Germany. On his retirement he devoted himself to the history of science studies. The results of his research are still regarded as standard works. Thanks to contacts with his home country succeeded Stieda gather an impressive collection of autographs. Almost all edited in this volume letters are published here for the first time. The band will appear in the publication series Relationes the project "scientific relations in the 19th century between Germany and Russia", which is located at the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig.
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