Remarks about the Bill of 23 March 2017 of the “Directive of the Minister of Science and Higher Education, Republic of Poland, dated ………… 2017”

The article discusses the Bill of 23 March 2017 of the “Directive of the Minister of Science and Higher Education, Republic of Poland, dated ………… 2017”. It indicates serious flaws of this Bill regarding legislation and t...

ŻYCIE I DZIAŁALNOŚĆ KONSTANTEGO JELSKIEGO – PRZYRODNIKA I BADACZA AMERYKI POŁUDNIOWEJ

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...

ZARYS DZIEJÓW MATEMATYKI W SIEDEMDZIESIĘCIOLECIU POLITECHNIKI KRAKOWSKIEJ

Przedmiotem pracy jest historia matematyki w Politechnice Krakowskiej w latach 1945–2015. Zaprezentowano sylwetki wybranych wybitnych matematyków w historii Politechniki Krakowskiej (Mirosław Krzyżański, Jan Bochenek, F...

Karl Kolbenheyer (1841–1901) – teacher, naturalist, tourist

Karl Kolbenheyer was born on May 28, 1841 in Bielsko. After attending a lower secondary school in Cieszyn, he began studies in classical languages (Greek and Latin) at universities in Vienna and Jena, then he worked as a...