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Il Newtonianismo per le dame
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- In Francesco Algarotti
A year later Algarotti wrote Il Newtonianismo per le dame (1737; “Newtonianism for Ladies”), a popular exposition of Newtonian optics. Following an extended visit to Russia in 1738–39, chronicled in the lively and informative letters collected in his Viaggi di Russia (1769; “Travels in Russia”; Eng. trans. Letters from Count…
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