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„Ultra prognosticare me sidera non permittunt” i o okolicznościach powstania przepowiedni elekcyjnej Jerzego Joachima Retyka

Choptiany M.

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki

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2016

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R. 61, nr 4

85--110

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The so-called elective prophecy by Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514–1574) was written most likely in the early 1560s and widely disseminated in a significant number of copies, textual variants, and translations into the German and Polish languages. This abundance of copies led to a great confusion concerning the original character of Rheticus political horoscope, followed by a series of explanatory notices, as the late and corrupted variants had been quite often taken as representative for the entire tradition of this text. This article seeks to discuss the nature of previous misconceptions regarding the original character of the prophecy in the light of the most reliable witness (MS Wrocław, Biblioteka Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Akc. 1949/594, fols 56v–57v) and other variants located in European libraries. It also aims to shed some critical light on probable origins of Rheticus’s horoscope and the way it evolved into a popular prophecy, deprived of proper astrological apparatus, and shaped political opinion among the members of the Polish nobility (szlachta).

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„Adeste omnes Logicae et Mathematicae Musae” Jana Brożka Apologia pro Aristotele et Euclide (1652) i problem antyramizmu w Akademii Krakowskiej

Choptiany M.

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki

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2014

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R. 59, nr 2

7--61

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This article discusses a largely overlooked aspect of the last work by Johannes Broscius (1585−1652), his Apologia pro Aristotele et Euclide contra Petrum Ramum et alios of 1652. While the past researchers focused their attention on the evaluation of Broscius’s contribution to mathematics, geometry in particular, they ignored the socio-scientific aspect of his work, that is the way Peter Ramus and his followers have been presented and how did the dark legend of Ramus have been thus revived at the Central-European university in the middle of 17th century. I am showing types of rhetorical arguments employed by Broscius and analyse the way he portrayed Ramus and depicted events related to the reception of Ramism at the Academy of Cracow. The article is followed by an appendix which contains a critical edition of excerpts from the manuscript rough draft of Apologia which has been preserved until nowadays (Jagiellonian Library MS. 3205 I). In the apparatus I identify the references and show how Broscius rewrote and rearranged the original paragraphs of his anti-Ramist work.

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Konrad Gesner jako czytelnik „Carmen de bisonte” Mikołaja Hussowskiego. Perspektywy badawcze

Choptiany M.

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki

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2013

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R. 58, nr 2

111--137

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This article is dedicated to the preliminary analysis of marginalia left by Conrad Gesner (1516-1565) in his personal copy of Carmen de bisonte by a Polish neo-Latin poet, Nicolaus Hussovianus. Gesner received this small volume from his former disciple, Anton Schneeberger, who had settled down in Krakow in the late 1550s, and he immediately annotated this volume, using it as an additional source of information for his zoological works, Historia animalium and Icônes animalium. Until the publication of the catalogue of Gesner’s private library, the copy of Hussovianus’s Carmen remained unknown to Polish historians of literature and science. The essay presents an outline of research perspectives related to this document and the rest of Gesner’s Nachlass. The article is followed by two appendices, one providing the bibliographical information on the Zurich copy of Carmen, the other giving a sample of Hussovianus’s text accompanied by Gesner’s notes and interventions.