Leonhard Euler's Letters to a German princess : a milestone in the history of physics textbooks and more /

Leonhard Euler's / Letters to a German Princess on Various Subjects in Physics and Philosophy / is a milestone in the history of physics textbooks and the instruction of women in the sciences. It also covers views of its author on epistemology, religion, and innovations in scientific equipment,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Calinger, Ronald (Autor), Denisova, Ekaterina (Physics educator) (Autor), Polyakhova, Elena N. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2019]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 6.
IOP concise physics.
Temas:
Euler, Leonhard, > 1707-1783. > Lettres a une princesse d'Allemagne sur divers sujets de physique & de philosophie.
Physics > Early works to 1800.
Philosophy > Early works to 1800.
Astronomy > Early works to 1800.
History of science.
SCIENCE / History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : physics pedagogy
  • 1. Physics textbooks : origins before 1650 and principal natural philosophies and physics textbooks of the Enlightenment
  • 1.1. Physics textbooks : origins before 1650
  • 1.2. Principal Enlightenment natural philosophies
  • 1.3. Physics textbooks in Europe and North America
  • 2. The two princesses and the Letters
  • 2.1. The two princesses : errors, lineage, and biographies
  • 2.2. The Letters : creation, publication and translation
  • 3. Euler : life, research, and teaching
  • 3.1. The Swiss years, 1707-27
  • 3.2. At the new Petersburg Academy : pathbreaking groundwork, 1727-41
  • 3.3. At the renovated Berlin Academy : the summit of his career, 1741-66
  • 3.4. Return to the Petersburg Academy : a vigorous autumn, 1766-83
  • 4. Selected letters from Volume 1 (letters 1-79)
  • 4.1. Sound
  • 4.2. Composition of atmosphere
  • 4.3. Nature of light
  • 4.4. Optics and optical instruments
  • 4.5. Gravity
  • 4.6. Tides
  • 4.7. Principle of least action
  • 5. Selected letters from Volume 2 (letters 80-154) and Volume 3 (letters 155-234)
  • 5.1. Liberty, happiness, and truth
  • 5.2. Systems of monads and pre-established harmony
  • 5.3. Calculation of longitude and latitude
  • 5.4. Electricity and magnetism
  • 6. Afterword.

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