TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boss,Valentin
TI  - Newton and Russia: The Early Influence, 1698-1796 
T2  - Russian Research Center Studies
SN  - 9780674733503
AV  - QC16.N7 B55
U1  - 530/.0947 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Physik
KW  - Science
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - History
KW  - Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727
KW  - Science -- Soviet Union -- History
KW  - SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
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