The Petrine instauration : religion, esotericism and science at the court of Peter the Great, 1689-1725 / by Robert Collis.

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

xx, 583 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Quirinus Kuhlmann's millenarian mission to Moscow in 1689 -- Jacobite servitors. Jacob Bruce (1669-1735): a scientific sorcerer at the court of Peter the Great ; Scottish Jacobite roots ; Mathematics, astronomy and astrology: early training in the foreign quarter in Moscow and in London in 1698 ; Natural philosophy, alchemy and Mysticism religion ; Advancement of learning ; Robert Erskine (1677-1718): an iatrochemist at the Petrine court ; Robert Erskine's ancestry and Jacobite links ; Medicine and alchemy: an iatrochemist at the Petrine Court ; Erskine the chemical philosopher ; Erskine, balneology and his treatment of Peter the Great ; Astral and divine medicine ; Erskine and natural philosophy ; Erskine the natural philosopher ; Erskine and religion -- Ukrainian clerics. Stefan Iavorskii (1658-1722): an esoteric wordsmith at the court of Peter the Great ; Iavorskii's Kievan period ; For tsar and country: the apocalyptic, mystical and esoteric sermons of Stefan Iavorski ; Mystical orthodoxy, progressive pietism and esoteric science: the eclectic worldview of Feofan Prokopovich (1681-1736) ; Prokopovich's theological system ; Prokopovich's natural philosophy ; Prokopovich's educational vision: pietism and the Petrine instauration -- Peter the Great. Peter the Great's divine mission ; Peter the Great as King David ; The prophetic significance of the Nystad Peace of 1721 ; St. Petersburg as "New Jerusalem" ; The role of religion and esotericism in shaping Peter the Great's vision of scientific reform ; Francis Lee's vision of scientific reform in Russia ; Gottfried Leibniz's vision of scientific reform in Russia ; Collecting and marvelling at the curious: Peter the Great and the development of the St. Petersburg Kunstkamera ; Towards an Academy of Sciences ; Esoteric interests of Peter the Great.