Соболев Владимир Семенович
Санкт-Петербургский филиал Института истории естествознания и техники им. С.И. Вавилова РАН, Санкт-Петербург, Россия
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Статья посвящена одному из малоизвестных эпизодов знаменитой экспедиции П.С. Палласа 1768-1774 гг. В ней на основе выявленных в Архиве РАН источников, не вводившихся ранее в научный оборот, освещена история открытия Палласова железа, показан большой интерес научного сообщества к этому открытию.
«A Gift drop down from the Heavens…» (on history of the meteorite «Pallas Iron»)
Vladimir S. Sobolev
Saint-Petersburg Branch, S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences
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In 1772 scientific expedition P.S. Pallas in the head exploring a nature in Krasnojarsk region, had been found a 680 kilogram lump of metal. Pallas arranged for it to be transported back to St Petersburg. Sub-sequent analysis of the metal showed that it was a new type of stony-iron. 1794 E.Hladni had made an analysis of the stone and came to the conclusion that it is the meteorite. This scientifi c find so called «Pal-las Iron» marked the beginning of the Science Academy meteorite collection et Kunstkammera (now — in the Museum of Mineralogy RAS, Moscow). The Minister for Internal Affairs (Department of the Interior) Osip Petrovič Kosodavlev (1754-1819), writer and publisher, was a good educated man and liberal administrator in government of emperor Alexander the First. He published educational edition the «Severnaja Pochta» («The Northern Post») till his death. Documents from Archives of the Russian Acad-emy of Sciences (St. Petersburg Branch) evidenced on Kosodavlev’s special interest in the «Pallas Iron».