Otto Stapf, 1857-1933

1933 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-118
Keyword(s):  
Royal Academy ◽  
Near East ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Town

Otto Stapf was bom on March 23, 1857, at Isehl, Austria, his father being Oberbergrat of the town. His boyhood was spent at Hallstadt, where his family moved about 1859, his father being in charge of the salt springs there which feed the famous baths at Ischl. His botanical studies were carried out at Vienna under Professor Wiesner, and in 1882, after he had obtained his Ph.D. degree, he became Assistant to Professor Kerner von Marilaun ; he was appointed Privaldozent in the University in 1887. Early in his botanical career, he turned his attention to the Botany of the Near East, maintaining his interest in this subject all his life, and he edited the botanical results of the Polak Expedition to Persia (1882) and elaborated most of the families. The account was published by the Royal Academy of Sciences of Vienna in 1885 and 1886.

scholarly journals A escravidão e o acesso à terra nas concepções de Luís Antônio de Oliveira Mendes (1792-1821)

Afro-Ásia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magnus Roberto De Mello Pereira
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Royal Academy ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Land Distribution ◽  
The University ◽  
Intellectual Formation ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The 19Th Century

<p>O presente artigo explora o ideário de Luís Antônio de Oliveira Mendes sobre um conjunto de temas referentes à escravidão e ao regime fundiário na transição do século XVIII para o XIX: o controle da crueldade dos senhores de escravos; a condenação da escravidão perpétua; e a distribuição de terras baldias entre libertos e outros despossuídos. Para entender esse ideário foi preciso compreender e localizar historicamente a origem familiar e o universo da formação intelectual de Oliveira Mendes, da qual fez parte a Universidade de Coimbra e a Academia Real das Ciências de Lisboa.</p><p>Slavery and access to land in Luís Antônio de Oliveira Mendes’ views (1792-1821)</p><p>This article explores Luís Antônio de Oliveira Mendes’ ideas about themes related to slavery and the land ownership regime at the turn of the 19th century: the control of the cruelty of slaveholders; the condemnation of perpetual slavery; and the distribution of unoccupied land to freed and other dispossessed people. In understanding Oliveira Mendes’ ideas, it is necessary to comprehend and historically locate his family origin and of the intellectual formation of Oliveira Mendes, which included the University of Coimbra and the Royal Academy of Sciences in Lisbon.</p><p>Slavery | Anti-slavery | Land distribution | Luso-Brazilian intellectuals</p>

scholarly journals Jędrzej Śniadecki i jego dziedzictwo. Sesja Nadzwyczajna podczas 61. Zjazdu Naukowego Polskiego Towarzystwa Chemicznego

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 45-49
Author(s):  
Ewa Wyka
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Society ◽  
Scientific Meeting ◽  
Birthday Anniversary ◽  
Innovative Work ◽  
Vilnius University ◽  
Grand Duchy Of Lithuania ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Small Museum ◽  
The Town

Jędrzej Śniadecki and his legacy. Extraordinary Session at the 61st Scientific Meeting of the Polish Chemical Society The year 2018 marked the 250th birthday anniversary of Jędrzej Śniadecki (30 Nov 1768–11 May 1838), a renowned Polish chemist, doctor and columnist. Jędrzej, the younger brother of Jan Śniadecki, a Polish mathematician and astronomer, was born in Radlewo near Żnin in Greater Poland. His family and professional life was associated with Vilnius. From 1803, he was a professor of chemistry and medicine at the Principal School of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which then became the Imperial University of Vilnius. He was the author of the first chemistry textbook in Polish (1800) and an innovative work entitled Teoria jestestw organicznych (Theory of Organic Beings) (1804). The birthday of Jędrzej Śniadecki was celebrated in the three countries to which his fate was tied: Belarus, Lithuania and Poland. Celebrations in Poland: The year-long celebrations in Poland started on 28 January 2018 with a concert at the Main University Auditorium of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. It was organized by the PoznańSociety of Jędrzej Śniadecki, Karol Olszewski and Zygmunt Wróblewski. In March 2018, celebrations were inaugurated by the town of Żnin, with the event being attended by descendants of the Śniadecki family: Prof. Antonina Magdalena Śniadecki-‑Kotarska, Senator Piotr Łukasz Juliusz Andrzejewski and Krzysztof Śniadecki-Lempke. A lecture on Jędrzej Śniadecki and the Society of Rascals was delivered by Emilia Maria Iwaszkiewicz, PhD, from Vilnius University. The University of Science and Technology in Bydgoszcz (UTP) also commemorated the scholars it has chosen as its namesakes, that is Jan Śniadecki and Jędrzej Śniadecki. A report on the event and an article by Emilia M. Iwaszkiewicz, PhD, are available in Magazyn UTP Format 2.0 No. 3 from July 2018. In Kraków, during the 61st Scientific Meeting of the Polish Chemical Society, a session was organized entitled “Jędrzej Śniadecki and his legacy”. During the session, five papers were delivered which presented Jędrzej Śniadecki, his academic and journalistic output and memorabilia related to him. Celebrations in Lithuania: On 10 September 2018, Vilnius City Hall held a conference attended by Urszula Doroszewska, the Polish ambassador to Lithuania, and Edyta Tamošiūnaitė, the Deputy Mayor of Vilnius, as well as Polish and Lithuanian scholars. On 11–13 October 2018, at the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences was held the 4th Oxygenalia International Conference. Belarus: The memory of Jędrzej Śniadecki is also cherished in Belarus, especially in Gorodniki where he is buried and at the nearby school in Kolchuny, which houses a small museum commemorating him and other scholars with ties to this region.

scholarly journals José Monteiro da Rocha (1734–1819) and His 1782 Work on the Determination of Comet Orbits

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-481
Author(s):  
Fernando B. Figueiredo ◽  
João Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Royal Academy ◽  
History Of Astronomy ◽  
Easy Method ◽  
International Astronomical ◽  
Parabolic Orbit ◽  
History Of ◽  
Parabolic Orbits ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

In 1782 José Monteiro da Rocha, astronomer and professor at the University of Coimbra, presented, in a public session of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, a memoire on the problem of the determination of the orbits of comets. Only in 1799 would the “ Determinação das Orbitas dos Cometas” (Determination of the orbits of comets) be published in the Academy’s memoires. In that work, Monteiro da Rocha presents a method for solving the problem of the determination of the parabolic orbit of a comet making use of three observations. Monteiro da Rocha’s method is essentially the same as the method proposed by Olbers and published under von Zach’s sponsorship 2 years before, in 1797. Having been written and published in Portuguese was certainly a hindrance for its dissemination among the international astronomical community. In this paper, we intend to present Monteiro da Rocha’s method and try to explain to what extent we can justify Gomes Teixeira’s assertion that Monteiro da Rocha and Olbers must figure together in the history of astronomy, as the first inventors of a practical and easy method for the determination of parabolic orbits of comets.

scholarly journals The beginnings of mathematical institutions in Serbia

2017 ◽  
Vol 102 (116) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Nikolic
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Institute ◽  
Royal Academy ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Significant Period ◽  
National Institutions ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Education Process ◽  
Serbian Academy

Institutional development of mathematics in Serbia rests on two national institutions: Belgrade Higher School established in 1863, from 1905 the University of Belgrade, and the Serbian Royal Academy founded in 1886, later the Serbian Academy of Sciences and today the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Dimitrije Nesic, professor of mathematics and rector of the Belgrade Higher School, founded the first mathematics library in Serbia in 1871. In time, as a result of the collaboration between the Academy and the University and overlapping activities, it had become the main place for mathematicians to gather and work and became known as the Mathematical Seminar of the University of Belgrade. The year 1896 is considered to be the year when the Seminar was officially founded and when it began its activities as an institution. Professors Mihailo Petrovic and Bogdan Gavrilovic, members of the Serbian Royal Academy, were the two people most responsible for its establishing. The period between the two world wars is the most significant period in the development and institutionalization of the activities of the Mathematical Seminar and Petrovic?s school of mathematics, which represent the root of the overall development of mathematics in Serbia. The Mathematical Institute was founded in 1946 under the authority of the Serbian Academy of Sciences. All Institute achievements and activities - publishing activities, organization of scientific seminars, introducing young and talented mathematicians to scientific work, improving the education process at the University of Belgrade - are pointed out. Today, after 70 years, the Mathematical Institute developed into the most significant Serbian institution of mathematics.

Conference Reports

2004 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-386
Author(s):  
Anita Pelle ◽  
László Jankovics
Keyword(s):  
Hungarian Academy ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Foreign Direct Investments ◽  
Central Eastern Europe ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Economic Association ◽  
Regional Committee ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
European University

(1) The Halle Insitute for Economic Research (Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle, IWH) in cooperation with the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt an der Oder held a conference on 13-14 May 2004 in Halle (Saale), Germany on Continuity and Change of Foreign Direct Investments in Central Eastern Europe. (Reviewed by Anita Pelle); (2) The University of Debrecen, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration in cooperation with the Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Hungarian Economic Association organised an international symposium on the issue of Globalisation: Challenge or Threat for Emerging Economies on 29 April 2004 in Debrecen, Hungary. (Reviewed by László Jankovics)

scholarly journals IX. An account of trigonometrical operations in the years 1821, 1822 and 1823, for determining the difference of longitude between the Royal Observatories of Paris and Greenwich

1828 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 153-239 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Royal Academy ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Church ◽  
Royal Society Of London

In the year 1790, a series of trigonometrical operations was carried on by General Roy, in co-operation with Messrs. De Cassini, Mechain, and Legendre, for the purpose of connecting the meridians of Paris and Greenwich. In England, the work commenced with a base measured on Hounslow Heath, whence triangles were carried through Hanger Hill Tower and Severndroog Castle on Shooter’s Hill, to Fairlight Down, Folkstone Turnpike, and Dover Castle on the English coast; which last stations were connected with the church of Notre Dame at Calais, and with Blancnez and Montlambert upon the coast of France. An account of these operations will be found in the Philosophical Transactions for 1790. In the year 1821, the Royal Academy of Sciences and the Board of Longitude at Paris communicated to the Royal Society of London their desire, that the operations for connecting the meridians of Paris and Greenwich should be repeated jointly by both countries, and that commissioners should be nominated by the Royal Academy of Sciences and by the Royal Society of London for that purpose. This proposal having been readily acceded to, Messrs. Arago and Matthieu were chosen on the part of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and Lieut.-Colonel (then Captain) Colby and myself were appointed by the Royal Society to co-operate with them.

Funding and Directing Research or Rewarding Scientific Achievements?

Nuncius ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrice Bret
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Royal Academy ◽  
The State ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Académie Des Sciences ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Scientific Achievements

Abstract This study examines the science and technology prize system of the Académie des Sciences through a first survey of the prizes granted over the period extending from the 1720s to the end of the 19th century. No reward policy was envisaged by the Royal Academy of Sciences in the Réglement (statute) promulgated by King Louis XIV in 1699. Prizes were proposed later, first by private donors and then by the state, and awarded in international contests setting out specific scientific or technical problems for savants, inventors and artists to solve. Using cash prizes, under the Ancien Régime the Academy effectively directed and funded research for specific purposes set by donors. By providing it with significant extra funding, the donor-sponsored prizes progressively gave the Academy relative autonomy from the political power of the state. In the 19th century, with the growing awareness of the importance of scientific research, the main question became whether to use the prizes to reward past achievements or to incentivize future research, and the scale and nature of the prizes changed.

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