| Titre | Voltaire et l'Académie des sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg | |
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| Auteur | Michel Mervaud | |
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Revue | Revue des Etudes Slaves |
| Numéro | Vol. 80, no 4, 2009 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 459-471 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Voltaire and the Petersburg Academy of Sciences : The Correspondance Between Voltaire and Kirill Razumovskij in the Light of the Conflict between Joseph Nicolas Delisle and the Petersburg Academy of Sciences
This article analyses three letters sent by Kirill Razumovskij to Voltaire. Razumovskij, president of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences, urged Voltaire to ‘ break off dealings' with the French astronomer Delisle. Is it really proved that a relationship existed between Voltaire and Delisle? Voltaire denied these relations which were so displeasing to Russian scholars and authorities. Yet it seems highly probable that Voltaire and Delisle had been introduced to each other and we here reveal the base of our hypothesis. Besides, we show that many aspects of the relationship between Voltaire and the Petersburg Academy of Sciences are still to discover. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/slave_0080-2557_2009_num_80_4_7935 |
