Pavel Mervart Publishing Society for the History of Sciences and Technology

Josef Smolka:
On the ancestry of Josef Stepling


2013, Volume 46, Issue 3, pp. 151-163

Abstract

The article is devoted to some not yet clear facts from the life of one of the most important scientists of the Bohemian enlightenment, Josef Stepling (1716–1778); astronomer, physicist and mathema­tician who was in the contact with many European scholars throug. letters. Thank to this contactt he brought the most topical scientific themes to Bohemia.

Keywords

astronomy; physics; mathematics; 18th century; Bohemia; Josef Stepling; biography

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