Discoveries of Lomonosov

Optics and electricity, gravitation and heat, metallurgy and meteorology, geography and art, literature and history, philosophy and chemistry, astronomy and geology. We are all familiar with these exercises, but not everyone knows that Mikhail Vasilyevich made a significant contribution to these areas.

The most important discoveries of Lomonosov concern physics, chemistry and astronomy. These great achievements have surpassed the scientific works of Western European scholars for decades.

At the beginning of the year one thousand seven hundred and forty-eight, Mikhail Vasilievich insisted on the construction and equipment according to his drawings of the chemical laboratory at the Academy of Sciences, where he began to conduct analyzes of samples of various minerals and ores. These copies of Lomonosov extracted from the mining plants of all corners of Russia.

The chemical and physical experiments carried out by Lomonosov in a personal laboratory always differed with unsurpassed accuracy. One day, in the year 1748, Mikhail Vasilyevich conducted such an experiment: after weighing a sealed vessel of glass with lead plates, he calcined it, and then determined the mass again. The plates were thus covered with an oxide, however, the total weight of the vessel after the experiment remained unchanged. As a result, one of the most important laws of nature - the preservation of matter - was discovered. The printed publication of the law appeared only after twelve years, in the scientific dissertation "Discourse on the fluid and hardness of bodies." This discovery by Lomonosov is rightfully considered to be the most significant in the above-mentioned law.

Mikhail Vasilyevich was the first to formulate basic assumptions about the theory of gases related to the kinetic section. Lomonosov believed that any body consists of microscopic moving particles - atoms and molecules moving faster when the object is heated, and when it is cooled - much slower.

Lomonosov's scientific discoveries constantly concerned the most unpredictable areas and, thus, led Mikhail Vasilyevich into the sphere of fine arts. In the fifties of the 18th century, the scientist began to show special interest in glass beads and glass factories. It was thanks to Lomonosov that such a technique of facing appeared, as a Russian mosaic.

In the one thousand seven hundred and sixty-first year, Mikhail Vasilievich observed the passage of Venus between the Sun and the Earth. This very rare phenomenon was observed by scientists from many countries, who created long-distance expeditions for this purpose. But only the genius Lomonosov, while at home in Petersburg and watching the trumpet, made the greatest discovery that the atmosphere exists on Venus, but more dense than on our planet. One such discovery of Lomonosov would be enough to be remembered by his distant descendants.

Without the next invention of Lomonosov, it would be extremely difficult for astronomers to penetrate deep into the Universe, because Mikhail Vasilyevich created a powerful type of reflecting telescope at that time. In the reflector was only one mirror, which was located with a slope. It made it possible to observe a brighter image of objects, because in this case the light was not lost.

Ahead of modern science at the time, Lomonosov was the very first scientist to realize that the surface of a star called the Sun is a violent fiery ocean, because even "stones boil like water" in it.

The discoveries of Lomonosov also touched upon the creation of a scientific Russian language. He began to appear only under Tsar Peter I and consisted exclusively of borrowed foreign words. To indicate any technical things, all the experts used Latin, Dutch, German and Polish words, and they, unfortunately, were incomprehensible to others.

Lomonosov's achievements marked the ordering of terminology and the limitation of the number of foreign expressions that filled the literary and scientific Russian language at the beginning of the eighteenth century.