RUSSIAN GENIUS LOMONOSOV AS A PIONEER AND POPULARIZER IN SCIENCE

Marina Igorevna Maevskaya; Ludmila Petrovna Gromova

doi:10.15628/holos.2018.7882

Authors

Marina Igorevna Maevskaya Sankt-Peterburg State University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2412-6743
Ludmila Petrovna Gromova Sankt-Peterburg State University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4844-6410

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15628/holos.2018.7882

Keywords:

Michail Lomonosov, academy, science, enlightenment, lectures, discoveries, scientific popularization, scientific journalism

Abstract

The article analyzes the promotional activity of outstanding Russian encyclopedist Michail Lomonosov who founded the fundamentals of science in Russia and tried to make scientific knowledge available for the wide range of readers in the XVIII century. Also, different forms of dissemination of scientific knowledge that Lomonosov used in the academic and educational activities were examined in the article.

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