%0 Journal Article
%T Lalandes ¡®Voyage de Hollande¡¯. Het reisverslag van een astronoom, 1774
%A Florine Weekenstroo
%J Studium : Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteits-Geschiedenis
%D 2013
%I Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals
%X Lalandes ¡®Voyage de Hollande¡¯. The itinerary of an astronomer, 1774. In 1774, the French astronomer Joseph J¨¦r me Lefran ois de Lalande (1732¨C1807) visited the Dutch Republic to plea for a greater role of astronomy in navigation. At that time his Astronomie was translated into Dutch. A handwritten travelogue of his visit is preserved in the Biblioth¨¨que de l¡¯Institut de France in Paris. It is a brief, but fairly complete description of his journey, in which Lalande gives an impression of his visit to the cities, scientists, instrument makers and other ¨C for the greater part ¨C very prominent people of the Dutch Republic. This paper discusses Lalande¡¯s experiences in the Netherlands. It shows that Lalande¡¯s Voyage de Hollande is a unique testimony, showing how a foreign scholar experienced the Dutch Republic at the end of the eighteenth century and how he was received as scientific celebrity by the Dutch social upper class.
%K astronomy
%K travel account
%K J.J. de Lalande
%K eighteenth century
%K Dutch Republic
%U http://www.gewina-studium.nl/index.php/studium/article/view/8270