Mikhail Lomonosov: Discourse on Greater Accuracy of Navigation
Mikahil Lomonosov, Vladimir Shiltsev
TL;DR
This paper presents an English translation of Lomonosov's influential treatise on improving navigation accuracy, highlighting its historical significance in scientific dissemination during the Enlightenment.
Contribution
It provides the first complete English translation of Lomonosov's work on navigation accuracy, contributing to historical understanding of scientific communication.
Findings
Highlights Lomonosov's contributions to navigation science
Provides context for 18th-century scientific dissemination
Connects historical scientific ideas to modern navigation
Abstract
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 Accuracy of Navigation concludes the series of English translations of nine most significant scientific treatises, all of which Lomonosov himself compiled in the volume titled Lomonosow Opera Academica, intended for dissemination among European Academies.
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Taxonomy
TopicsHistorical Geography and Cartography