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In Foreign Lands: The Migration of Scientists for Political or Economic ReasonsThe Delisle Brothers in Russia: Victims of Historiography and Scurvy

In Foreign Lands: The Migration of Scientists for Political or Economic Reasons: The Delisle... [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 Pacific. Given the controversial role played in this story by the French cartographer Joseph Nicolas Delisle and his elder brother, the astronomer and explorer Louis Delisle de La Croyère, we would like to offer our vision of this conflictual situation, based on the detailed cross analysis of existing historiography, correspondences, academic sources, and the maps themselves.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

In Foreign Lands: The Migration of Scientists for Political or Economic ReasonsThe Delisle Brothers in Russia: Victims of Historiography and Scurvy

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Editors: Borgato, Maria Teresa; Phili, Christine
Gouzévitch, Dmitri
In Foreign Lands: The Migration of Scientists for Political or Economic Reasons — Apr 14, 2022
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
ISBN
978-3-030-80248-6
Pages
55 –84
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-80249-3_3
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[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 Pacific. Given the controversial role played in this story by the French cartographer Joseph Nicolas Delisle and his elder brother, the astronomer and explorer Louis Delisle de La Croyère, we would like to offer our vision of this conflictual situation, based on the detailed cross analysis of existing historiography, correspondences, academic sources, and the maps themselves.]

Published: Apr 14, 2022

Keywords: Second Kamchatka Expedition; Delisle; Delisle de la Croyère; Mapping of the northern Pacific; Bering; Siberia; 18th century discoveries

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