Philosophy in science – a case study of the reception of the Special and the General Theory of Relativity in Kraków and Lwów before 1925

A centenary of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity brings forward some questions with regard to the impact of Einstein’s theory on philosophy. This theory, and the chronologically earlier Special Theory of Relativity...

ZWIĄZKI JULIANA TALKO-HRYNCEWICZA Z POLSKĄ AKADEMIĄ UMIEJĘTNOŚCI I UNIWERSYTETEM JAGIELLOŃSKIM W KRAKOWIE

 

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...

POLSKIE KORZENIE MIĘDZYNARODOWEJ UNII BADAŃ CZWARTORZĘDU (INQUA)