دانلود کتاب Newton and Russia: The Early Influence, 1698-1796

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PREFACE\nCONTENTS\nIllustrations\nAbbreviations\nINTRODUCTION\nPART I. The Petrine Era\n1. Did Peter the Great Meet Newton?\n2. Flamsteed, Halley, Newton, and the \"Collonel\"\n3. Russia\'s First Newtonian\n4. Prince Menshikov\'s Exchange of Letters with Newton\n\"Worlds within Worlds\"\n6. Bruce as Translator and Instrument Maker\n7. Newton and the Naval Academy\nPART II. NEWTON AND THE ST. PETERSBURG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES\n8. The Foundation of the Academy and the Death of Newton\n9. The Principal Objections to the Cartesian Theory\n10. Newtonian Physics at the New Academy\n11. The Opening Controversy Over Gravitation\n12. Bilfinger and James Jurin\n13. \"Il Propagatore del Newtonianismo\"\n14. The Shape of the Earth\n15. Newton\'s Experiments with Light, and the Controversy Over \"vis viva\"\n16. Electricity and Action at a Distance\n17. Newton, Lomonosov, and Christian Wolff\n18. Lomonosov and the Opticks\n19. A New Kind of Newtonian Telescope?\n20. Newton in the Catherinian Era\nConclusion\nAPPENDIX I\nAPPENDIX II\nBIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE\nBIBLIOGRAPHY\nIndex