Amblers Peter B.( Academic)
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Biography Amblers Peter B.
(1741 - 1806), studied in an academic high school and was sent to GцІttingen for improvements in astronomy, on his return (1768) defined adjunct astronomy in Saint-Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Together with George Lovitz, . in 1769, . observed in the fortress Guriev (the Urals) transit of Venus before the sun, then engaged in astronomical observations in Tsaritsyn and Saratov (1770 - 1773) and barely escaped Pugacheva, . who hung his friend, . Lovitz, . In 1779, already an extraordinary academician, traveled to southern Russia to determine the geographical location of many cities. Back in 1783. in St. Petersburg, established academician and professor of astronomy. There was one time Inspector of academic high school and censor in Riga (in 1797), and from 1800 g. again took an academic department. Observations and Inohodtseva article published in "Commentary Academy" in the "Historical Mesyatseslovah" and the "New Monthly Works" ( "Description of the Caspian Sea", h. 33). Translated from Yudin "universal arithmetic, Euler (2 hours, St. Petersburg., 1768 and 1788), the first two parts of" Initial foundations of mathematics "Kestner, participated in the translation of" Natural History "Buffon. In "Memoires de l'Academie" (t. II - IX) placed Petrov: "Exstaits des observations meteorologiques faites a S.-Petersburg par Inokhodzoff". About him: in "History of Russia Academy of M. Suhomlinova (No.. 3, St. Petersburg., 1876, p.. 168 - 264).
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