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Mikhail Lomonosov Adapts Christian Wolff's Elements to Chemistry

This post follows on from two previous posts:

Christian Wolff's Elements Are Not Identical to Leibniz's Monads

In my post Leibniz's Monads: Infinitesimals of Consciousness, I studied Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s (1646-1716) monads, and ultimately concluded that they could be considered to be “infinitesimals of consciousness”.

My Writings on Geoheliocentrism

I have written a number of posts about geoheliocentrism, in which the Sun rotates around the Earth, and the outer planets rotate around the Sun.

Can a Physics Be Developed for the TYCHOS?

This is my tenth post on geoheliocentrism, and the sixth post specifically focusing on Simon Shack’s TYCHOS model. The previous posts were:

Accurately Retrodicting 3000 Years of Passages of Halley's Comet

This is my ninth post on geoheliocentrism, and the fifth post specifically focusing on Simon Shack’s TYCHOS model. The previous posts were:

The Great Inequality of Jupiter and Saturn, Part 4: In the TYCHOS, There Is No Inequality

This is the fourth and final part of a post broken up into multiple parts, because of its length.

The Great Inequality of Jupiter and Saturn, Part 3: The Mathematicians

This is the third part of a post broken up into multiple parts, because of its length.

The Great Inequality of Jupiter and Saturn, Part 2: The French Astronomers

This is the second part of a post broken up into multiple parts, because of its length.

The Great Inequality of Jupiter and Saturn, Part 1: The English Astronomers

This is the first part of a post broken up into multiple parts, because of its length.

New French Translations of André Assis's Experimental and Historical Foundations of Electricity

I am happy to announce that my French translations of the two volumes of The Experimental and Historical Foundations of Electricity, by André Koch Torres Assis, have been published by Apeiron in Montreal.