1. Did Peter the Great Meet Newton? (original) (raw)
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From the book Newton and Russia
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Chapters in this book (33)
PART I. The Petrine Era
1. Did Peter the Great Meet Newton?
2. Flamsteed, Halley, Newton, and the "Collonel"
4. Prince Menshikov's Exchange of Letters with Newton
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
13. "Il Propagatore del Newtonianismo"
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
19. A New Kind of Newtonian Telescope?
20. Newton in the Catherinian Era
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