Movement. Optics

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The Big place in works it was occupied with optics. Lomonosov was the supporter of the wave theory of light, has developed own theory of colours, has designed a number of optical devices, including, ' a noche-telescope ' with which help observed in 1761 passage of Venus on a disk of the Sun and has opened atmosphere presence on this planet.

Together with professor G.V.Rihmanom (1711-1753) Lomonosov investigated an atmospheric electricity, using invented by Rihmanom ' the electric index ', a prototype electroodds. The scientist considered as the reason of an atmospheric electricity ascending and descending streams of air and tried to construct the general theory of the electric phenomena which essence saw in aether movement.

Ignorance of the power and an intrigue of colleagues have accelerated death of Lomonosov.