Josef Smolka:
Physics in the Czech lands between the scientific revolution and the beginnings of the enlightenment (1620–1750)

Abstract

The article provides a succinct overview of the history of physics in the Czech lands in the period delimited by the events following the defeat of the Bohemian Revolt on one end and the start of the epoch of the Enlightenment on the other. After the counter-reformation, the period is marked by the dominance of the scholars of the Jesuit order. The author identifies the personalities of this time as well as the context of the research in natural philosophy, mechanics, optics, magnetism, and the vacuum.

Language: czech

Keywords: history of physics, Comenius, Jesuit physicist, Jan Marcus Marci, Balthasar Conrad, Theodor Moretus, Valerian Magni