Report on the activities of the PAU Commission on the History of Science in 2013/2014

The report describes the activities of the PAU Commission on the History of Science in 2013/2014. It provides the lists of the scientific meetings, the administrative and electoral matters, the publications as well as th...

NOTE ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE GENERALIZED CORRESPONDENCE PRINCIPLE

The author, referring to the text of Jan Woleński published on the pages of Prace Komisji Historii Nauki PAU in 2014, discusses the understanding of the generalized correspondence principle in the context of the followin...

BADANIA NAD ODRODZENIEM W KRAKOWSKIM ŚRODOWISKU NAUKOWYM

A rebuttal of recent arguments for Maragha influence on Copernicus

I reply to recent arguments by Peter Barker & Tofigh Heidarzadeh, Arun Bala, and F. Jamil Ragep claiming that certain aspects Copernicus’s astronomical models where influenced by late Islamic authors connected with the M...

SZKIC AKTUALNEJ DEBATY NAD NAUKOMETRIĄ I BIBLIOMETRIĄ W POLSCE I ZAPOMNIANE NAUKOZNAWSTWO

W toczonej w Polsce w ostatnich trzech dekadach debacie na temat naukometrii i bibliometrii popełniono bardzo poważny błąd metodyczny: pominięto refleksję naukoznawczą, szczególnie historyczno­‑metodologiczną. Artykuł...