JAN BROŻEK – VARIA

A mathematician, astronomer, physician, theologian, professor at the Kraków Academia, Joannes (Ioannes) Broscius (1585-1652) used this Latin form of his name. He was matriculated to the Academia as Brozek or Brożek (co...

 

On known and less known relations of Leonhard Euler with Poland

In this work we focus on research contacts of Leonhard Euler with Polish scientists of his era, mainly with those from the city of Gdańsk (then Gedanum, Danzig). L. Euler was the most prolific mathematician of all times,...

NICOLAUS COPERNICUS, THE CAMERA OBSCURA, AND CRACOW SCHOOL OF ASTRONOMY

This paper offers a discussion of a series of observations made in Frauenburg by Nicolaus Copernicus. The series was recorded by Copernicus in his copy of Johann Stoeffler’s Calendarium Romanum Magnum (Oppenheim 1518), a...

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