5 papers
Mikhail Lomonosov: Discourse on Greater Accuracy of Navigation
Mikahil Lomonosov, Vladimir Shiltsev
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765) is the eminent Russian polymath and a towering figure of the European Enlightenment. This English translation of his seminal work Discourse on Greater…
Mikhail Lomonosov: Oration on the Origin of Light
Mikhail Lomonosov, Vladimir Shiltsev
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765) was the eminent Russian polymath and a towering figure of the European Enlightenment. This English translation of Mikhail Lomonosov seminal work "Orat…
Mikhail Lomonosov: Oration on Benefits of Chemistry
Mikhail Lomonosov, Vladimir Shiltsev
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765) was a Russian polymath and one of the giants of the European Enlightenment. This English translation of his seminal work Oration on Benefits of Chemis…
Mikhail Lomonosov: Oration on the Birth of Metals by Earth's Tremor
Mikhail Lomonosov, Vladimir Shiltsev
This English translation of seminal work of Russian polymath Mikhail Lomonosov. It is derived from its Russian and Latin originals (1757) and continues the series of English transl…
Founding the First Chemistry Laboratory in Russia: Mikhail Lomonosov's Project
Robert P. Crease, Vladimir Shiltsev
This article, the third in a series about the Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), covers the first decade of his research at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, fr…