Josef Smolka:
Josef Stepling v archivu Royal Society

Abstract

Joseph Stepling in the Royal Society Archive

The relations between the Royal Society and Bohemian scientists were not too wide in the history. That is why a letter discovered in the Archive of the Royal Society is quite surprising. In April 1755, the Prague Jesuit Joseph Stepling informs James Short, fellow of the Royal Society, about an unusual natural phenomenon – falling meteorites – occurred in July 1753 near the town Tabor in the South Bohemia.

Language: czech

Keywords: Royal Society; Joseph Stepling; James Short; falling meteorites