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Leonhard Euler's Letters to a German Princess: A Milestone in the History of Physics Textbooks and More 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, including telescopes and microscopes. Today, 250 years later, we study this work of Euler's as a foundation for the history of physics teaching and analyze the letters from an historical and pedagogical point of view.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Ronald S Calinger received his doctorate in the history of science from the University of Chicago in 1971. He is professor of history emeritus at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He specializes in the history of mathematics and the mathematical sciences during the Enlightenment and the early nineteenth century. He has taught year-long courses on the history of mathematics, the history of science, and imperial Austria. He received the Austrian Cross, for the Sciences and Arts, First Class, 1996. He was the Founding Chancellor of the Euler Society, 2003, a Dibner Library Resident Scholar, 2007 and 2010, and was invited to lecture on imperial Austria during the Mozart celebration by the Smithsonian Associates, 2006-7. He has written more than 70 research articles and reviews in such journals as Isis, Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Science, and Annals of Science. Among his eight books, he edited
Vita Mathematica: Historical Research and Integration with Teaching (1996), and
Classics of Mathematics (1999), and wrote
A Contextual History of Mathematics: to Euler (1999), and
Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment (2016).
