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Newton and Russia

Newton and Russia

Chapters in this book (33)

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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