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In Foreign Lands: The Migration of Scientists for Political or Economic Reasons

Part of the Trends in the History of Science Book Series

Editors: Borgato, Maria Teresa; Phili, Christine

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-80249-3

ISBN: 978-3-030-80248-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Apr 14, 2022

1 - 10 of 17 Chapters

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Chapter 1Leonhard Euler in St. Petersburg and Berlin

Knobloch, Eberhard

Pages: 1 –18

[Leonhard Euler spent nearly his whole scientific life outside Switzerland. In 1727, for economic reasons, he went to St. Petersburg. where he occupied his first paid scientific position and became, after a while, mathematics professor at the recently founded Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1741,...
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Chapter 2Lagrange’s Mathematical Life in Berlin and Paris. A Reappraisal

Borgato, Maria Teresa

Pages: 19 –53

[Lagrange’s life was marked by three distinct periods in three European capitals: Turin, Berlin and Paris. Lagrange left Turin, his hometown, due to the lack of prospects for an adequate scientific career. As is well known, his dissatisfaction came to the notice of d’AlembertD'Alembert,...
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Chapter 3The Delisle Brothers in Russia: Victims of Historiography and Scurvy

Gouzévitch, Dmitri

Pages: 55 –84

[In this paper, we will focus on the problem of maps for the Second Kamchatka Expedition (1733–1743), the most important 18th century exploratory enterprise of the Russian Crown which marked a major step in the history of discoveries and a decisive turning point in the mapping of the northern...
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Chapter 4A Corfiot Scientist in the Russian Empire: The Case of Nikephoros Theotokis (1731–1800)

Phili, Christine

Pages: 85 –105

[Nikephoros Theotokis who was formed in Italy, constitutes an important figure of the Greek Enlightenment. Mainly by his 3 Volumes treatise, Elements of mathematics published in Moscow thanks to Zosimas brothers’ generosity, offered to the enslaved nation a very modern manual for the teaching of...
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Chapter 5Boscovich and the Matter of the Mediterranean Harbours

Lugaresi, Maria Giulia

Pages: 107 –125

[The Jesuit Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich (1711–1787), bornBoscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppe in the Dalmatian city of Ragusa, was professor of Mathematics at the Roman College from 1741 to 1760. He wrote many important papers on geometry, physics, optics and astronomy. Starting in 1742, he complemented...
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Chapter 6An Enlightened Expert on the Movement and Globalization of Civil Engineering: Augustin Betancourt (1756–1824)

Gouzevitch, Irina

Pages: 127 –160

[In this chapter, we shall examine the transnational path undertaken by the Spanish engineer Augustin Betancourt, an emblematic figure of the European Enlightenment. Mobility, expertise and network are the three keywords, which sum up his great activity, which started in the Canary Isles and took...
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Chapter 7The Migration of Italian Mathematicians Between the 18th and 19th Centuries

Patergnani, Elisa; Pepe, Luigi

Pages: 161 –182

[When, in 1796, the Italian army of General BonaparteBonaparte, Napoleone defeated the former coalition states, many scientists joined the new governments and, with the Austro-Russian restoration of 1798, had to find refuge in France: among these were three already established mathematicians...
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Chapter 8Guglielmo Libri, Mathematician, Historian, Collector, Patriot, and Liberal

Fiocca, Alessandra; Del Centina, Andrea

Pages: 183 –201

[Guglielmo LibriLibri, Guglielmo, mathematician, historian, erudite man of letters, collector and seller of antique books, journalist and patriot, was one of the most important and most controversial figures in Europe during the first half of the nineteenth century, and, as such, the focus of...
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Chapter 9The Spread of Scientific Knowledge and Technology Transfer: André Coyne (1891–1960) and the Construction of Dams in 20th Century Portugal

Cardoso de Matos, Ana

Pages: 203 –219

[After the World War I, hydroelectricity was definitively recognized as an energy alternative for Portugal, a country with a scarcity of coal. However, the construction of dams required not only large investments, but also very specific and up-to-date knowledge and competencies. On the one hand,...
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Chapter 10On the Emigration of Russian Mathematicians During the Revolutionary and Post-revolutionary Events of the 1910s and ‘20s

Demidov, S. S.

Pages: 221 –234

[The Great October Revolution of 1917 in Russia and the ensuing civil war caused a large flow of emigration, a significant part of which, if not quantitatively, then qualitatively, belonged to the Russian intellectual elite. Within this flow, a significant group was formed by scientists,...

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