
Dimitri BayukUniversité Paris Cité | Paris 5
Dimitri Bayuk
PhD in the History of Science
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Introduction
Dimitri Bayuk is currently working on related projects: (1) the trip of two astronomers from Geneva to Russian Lapland to observe the transit of Venus across the Sun in 1769 and its scientific and cultural contexts; (2) the role of observational astronomy in the building of Romanoff Empire in Russia and Qing Empire in China in the eighteenth century
Education
September 1977 - March 1983
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Publications (16)
In addition to the "window to Europe," Russia of Peter the Great's time made an unprecedentedly powerful advance to the east. Steps to the west were made with difficulty, little by little, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of human lives. Siberia was conquered over thousands of square kilometers and at a much lower cost. We might now, in our own...
The transition from the exclusive use of words to the predominant use of symbols in mathematics continued for centuries, but by the seventeenth century it turned out to be explosive. This phenomenon became known as the “symbolic revolution” in mathematics. One of its main outcomes was the discovery of mathematical analysis almost simultaneously and...
2003 году в Москве побывал знаменитый француз-ский философ Мишель Серр. Тогда он рассказывал, что после школы хотел стать физиком, но бомбардировки Хиросимы и Нагасаки сделали для него неприемлемой эту мысль, и он ушел сначала в математику, а потом и вообще начал заниматься философией. И он подчерки-вал, что это было целое поколение философов, кото...
The disciplinary differentiation of sciences attracted Leibniz’s attention for a long period of time. From nowadays prospects it looks very well grounded as soon as in Leibniz’s manuscripts a modern scholar finds clue ideas of any research field which would tempt him to consider Leibniz as one of the founders of this particular discipline. We argue...
Antoine Gaubil (1689-1759) is the first European missionary in China involved in scientific research in the Beijing Imperial Court that was elected member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. In this paper his work in Russia is analysed. Peter the Great was in Paris in 1717 when Joseph-Nicolas Delisle’s brother Guillaume presented to the Fren...
Peter the Great was in Paris in 1717 when Delisle’s brother Guillaume presented to the French Academy of Sciences his 1706 map of Muskovy, and he was greatly impressed both by the exactness of the map and by the skill of the cartographer. It is thought that from here he got the idea of having a map of Russia drawn by the same cartographer, using in...
In Russia the theme of science and religion found its strongest resonance at the levels of humanistic scholarship and Christianity in general, where visions of harmony dominated and doctrinal and confessional particularity was largely absent. The fraught relations of both the Holy Synod and the Imperial Academy of Sciences with the Russian state si...
The Institute for the History of Science and Technology (in transliterated Russian Institut Istorii Estestavoznaniya I Tekhniki, or IIET in abbreviation) in Moscow, along with its branch in St. Petersburg, is the largest research centre for history of science and technology in Russia. Its story encompasses a period of great change for Russia and as...
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An attempt to understand and analyze a unique nineteenth-century musical instrument – the enharmonic piano from the collection of the Glinka Museum of Russian Musical Culture in Moscow – directs a historian towards Prince Vladimir Odoyevskiy’s efforts to construct a special musical scale corresponding to the indigenous tradition of Russian...