St Petersburgh |
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Author:
| Granville, Augustus Bozzi |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-05861-2 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2012 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $27.90 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VII. PICTURE OF ST. PETERSBURGH. Imperial Buildings and Institutions connected with Science and the Fine Arts. ? The Imperial Academy of Sciences. ? Its Constitution.? Contributions to Science. ?Great and Illustrious Members of that Academy. ? Monsieur Ouvaroff, the President. ? The Observatory. ?...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VII. PICTURE OF ST. PETERSBURGH. Imperial Buildings and Institutions connected with Science and the Fine Arts. ? The Imperial Academy of Sciences. ? Its Constitution.? Contributions to Science. ?Great and Illustrious Members of that Academy. ? Monsieur Ouvaroff, the President. ? The Observatory. ? The Gottorp Globe. ? The Zoological Museum. ? The Cabinet of Mineralogy. ? The Mammoth. ? Native Iron of Pallas. ? Anatomical Collections. ? Cabinet of Peter the Great. ? Cabinet of Curiosities. ? The Insects and dry Plants. ? The Museum of Medals and Asiatic Museum. ? The Egyptian Museum. ? Grand General Meeting to commemorate the Conclusion of the first Century since the Foundation of the Academy. ? Visit of the Empress-mother to the Academy, at the beginning and end of the second half of that Century. ? The Secular Medal. ? Printing-press of the Academy. ? The Author's Public Lecture at the Academy. ? Presented with the Secular Medal, and made a Member of that Society. AFTER all, it is neither by the number and splendour of Imperial palaces, nor by all the military pomp of the finest army in the world, that we can judge of the present measure of civilization in Russia. Peter the Great, who had from experience gained in the course of his voyages and travels of discovery, acquired the conviction that science, literature, and the fine arts can alone advance a nation to that rank which marks the superiority of refined over uncultivated nature, while in the act of founding his new capital, and almost before there were houses built or men to inhabit them, made ample provisions for the introduction of science into his dominions. In the course of his second journey into Holland and France, in the years 1708 and 1717, Peter paid great attention to the state of science a...