In creating the dictionary of the Russian Academy of Sciences, people who seemed to be incredibly far removed from philology and lexicography took part. Of course, it is necessary to take into account that in the XVIII century there was no such separation of sciences as now, and students of natural sciences received extensive knowledge in the field of philology. One of these scientists was Pyotr Borisovich Inokhodtsev, an academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, who devoted his life to astronomy, about which he wrote: "Almost all the sciences took place out of necessity and amid the city's noise; but astronomy began its perception from curiosity in an open and silent field" (Mesyatseslov with instructions). Pyotr Borisovich Inokhodtsev was born on November 21, 1742 in Moscow in the family of a soldier of the Preobrazhensky regiment. The father of the future academician himself did not receive enough education and dreamed of seeing his son, in whom he noticed a desire for learning, an educated person. He applied to enroll his son in an Academic gymnasium. It was reviewed, Pyotr Inokhodtsev was examined and dismissed.- page 80 sent to St. Petersburg to visit the inspector of the Academic Gymnasium, Academician S. P. Krasheninnikov (professor of natural history, who was the first mentor of our other famous scientists) for two probationary months. During these months, Inokhodtsev proved to be a capable student and, after a probationary period, was admitted to the gymnasium. After graduating from high school in 1760, he entered the Academic University, where he listened to lectures on theoretical and practical astronomy by S. Ya. Rumovsky (the name of S. Ya. Rumovsky, a truly encyclopedic scientist, is also among the authors of the Dictionary of the Russian Academy), on experimental physics and natural philosophy-Brown; on algebra, differential and integral calculus and higher geometry - S. K. Kotelnikov and in classical literature - Fischer. During his stu ... Read more