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Louis de l'Isle de la Croyère[1], Born in 1685 in Paris and died on at the [Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky|port Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul]][2] in Kamtchatka, is a French Astronomer who serviced the Russian Empire and became academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint-Petersburg.

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Louis De L'Isle is the son of historian and geographer Claude Delisle (1644-1720) and half brother of cartographer Guillaume Delisle (1675-1726). He was invited in Russia in by his brother Nicolas (1688-1768) who had arrived the previous year as the director of the cartography department at the Imperial Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Louis De L'Isle was made professor of astronomy and academician in .

He was named at the head of the first astronomic and geological expedition in Russia's European north.



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  • KLEIN Olivier, Un voyage scientifique au XVIIIème siècle: le voyage de Delisle de la Croyère dans le nord de la Russie, Mémoire d'Histoire, Université Paris VII, 2002.
  1. He adds his mother's name
  2. Today a part of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky