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The Spread of Precision Measurement in Scandinavia 1660–1800

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The Sciences in the European Periphery During the Enlightenment

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The history of science in Scandinavia has usually been written on the basis of the published sources of institutions such as the Academies of Science, or of the monographs by Professors of the Universities. If this were all the scientific activity, it would have been a veneer, an activity limited to an urban elite, very remote from the experience of the vast majority of the population. Such a description of science might possibly be appropriate for the St. Petersburg Academy with its imported Professors, which remained separate from the lives of most Russians and failed to have the modernising impact upon Russian society which its benefactor, Peter the Great, had hoped.

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