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O SENJANINU IVANU PASKVIĆU I NJEGOVIM RADOVIMA IZ MEHANIKE
ABOUT SENJANIN IVAN PASKVIĆ AND HIS WORKS IN MECHANICS

Author(s): Stipe Kutleša
Subject(s): History of ideas, 18th Century, 19th Century
Published by: Senjsko muzejsko društvo i Gradski muzej Senj
Keywords: Ivan Paskvić from Senj;

Summary/Abstract: This article gives an outline of the life and work of Ivan Paskvić from Senj, an insufficiently known but important Croatian scientist from the second half of the 75th and the beginning of the 79th centuries. He taught in the scientific ially most important centres of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire: Budapest and Vienna, and collaborated with prominent European scientists of that time. He was professor of higher mathematics at the University of Pest and was the founder of the observatory in Buda. He was particularly interested in mechanics. In the second, more fruit ful period of his research he worked in the field of astronomy and higher geodesy.

  • Issue Year: 15/1988
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 149-156
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Croatian