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Newton and Russia : The Early Influence, 1698-1796 / Valentin Boss.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Russian Research Center Studies ; 69Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1972Edition: Reprint 2013Description: 1 online resource (309 p.) : 48 halftonesContent type:
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  • 9780674733503
  • 9780674733527
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 530/.0947
LOC classification:
  • QC16.N7 B55
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. The Petrine Era -- 1. Did Peter the Great Meet Newton? -- 2. Flamsteed, Halley, Newton, and the "Collonel" -- 3. Russia's First Newtonian -- 4. Prince Menshikov's Exchange of Letters with Newton -- "Worlds within Worlds" -- 6. Bruce as Translator and Instrument Maker -- 7. Newton and the Naval Academy -- PART II. NEWTON AND THE ST. PETERSBURG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES -- 8. The Foundation of the Academy and the Death of Newton -- 9. The Principal Objections to the Cartesian Theory -- 10. Newtonian Physics at the New Academy -- 11. The Opening Controversy Over Gravitation -- 12. Bilfinger and James Jurin -- 13. "Il Propagatore del Newtonianismo" -- 14. The Shape of the Earth -- 15. Newton's Experiments with Light, and the Controversy Over "vis viva" -- 16. Electricity and Action at a Distance -- 17. Newton, Lomonosov, and Christian Wolff -- 18. Lomonosov and the Opticks -- 19. A New Kind of Newtonian Telescope? -- 20. Newton in the Catherinian Era -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX I -- APPENDIX II -- BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index -- Backmatter
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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. The Petrine Era -- 1. Did Peter the Great Meet Newton? -- 2. Flamsteed, Halley, Newton, and the "Collonel" -- 3. Russia's First Newtonian -- 4. Prince Menshikov's Exchange of Letters with Newton -- "Worlds within Worlds" -- 6. Bruce as Translator and Instrument Maker -- 7. Newton and the Naval Academy -- PART II. NEWTON AND THE ST. PETERSBURG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES -- 8. The Foundation of the Academy and the Death of Newton -- 9. The Principal Objections to the Cartesian Theory -- 10. Newtonian Physics at the New Academy -- 11. The Opening Controversy Over Gravitation -- 12. Bilfinger and James Jurin -- 13. "Il Propagatore del Newtonianismo" -- 14. The Shape of the Earth -- 15. Newton's Experiments with Light, and the Controversy Over "vis viva" -- 16. Electricity and Action at a Distance -- 17. Newton, Lomonosov, and Christian Wolff -- 18. Lomonosov and the Opticks -- 19. A New Kind of Newtonian Telescope? -- 20. Newton in the Catherinian Era -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX I -- APPENDIX II -- BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index -- Backmatter

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