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Henri Marmottan (1832–1914), Friend and Correspondent of Władysław Taczanowski (1819–1890) and Antoni Waga (1799–1890). A Contribution to the History of the Warsaw Zoological Cabinet.The article presents Henri Marmottan and his cooperation with the Warsaw Zoological Cabinet. Marmottan, a correspondent of Antoni Waga and Władysław Taczanowski, sent bird specimens to Warsaw. From Poland, he received both birds and insects for his collections. The text also includes an analysis of Marmottan’s correspondence with Konstanty Branicki. In the collections of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, where the Marmottan collections are kept, the authors found specimens sent from Poland, and in the collections of the Museum and Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, specimens sent by him from Paris. Marmottan’s scientific cooperation with Polish zoologists is presented in the context of the epoch, the Russian occupation of Warsaw, the Franco-Prussian war, and the Paris Commune.
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Is It an Encyclopedia and a Good Start for an International Project to Publish the History of Cartography in the Enlightenment? The History of Cartography, t. 4, Cartography in the European Enlightenment, cz. 1–2, red. Matthew H. Edney, Mary Sponberg Pedley, University of Chicago Press, Chicago – London 2019, ss. 1764, 479 haseł/artykułów, 954 ilustracji. The author indicates the extensive range of topics of Cartography in the European Enlightenment, which works both to its advantage and disadvantage. It is a disadvantage because only some of the subjects in the volume were discussed thoroughly, focusing on the scope of the entire project. The authors had the opportunity to carefully select objects, map makers, facts, and phenomena they presented, but the final product has many holes, as often happens in the case of encyclopedias. An advantage is that it provides a canvas that can be filled with topics that have not yet been covered. There is an impressive number of 207 authors who wrote 479 entries and articles, and their work, thanks to a well-devised structure of topics, also gives future researchers of the history of the cartography of the European Enlightenment a chance to systematically expand and deepen their experience with the book. Thematic cross-index allows the reader to search for information similarly to using keywords on the Internet. It is beneficial and intuitive, especially for young people, allowing them to easily navigate and browse the publication.
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Science Interconnected. German-Polish Scholarly Entanglements in Modern History, red. Jan Surman, współpraca Friedrich Cain, Marcin Dolecki, Maciej Górny, Peter Haslinger, Adam Kożuchowski, Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen, Ewa Manikowska, Thomas Strobel, Verlag Herder-Institut, Marburg 2022, ss. 345.
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Podporucznik Jakub Plezia (1885-1941) dowodził I kompanią 3 batalionu 56 pułku piechoty armii austro-węgierskiej. Pod koniec życia opisał swój udział w ataku na wzgórze Pustki w Łużnej koło Gorlic w maju 1915 r. Oryginał tekstu został zdeponowany przez jego syna, prof. Mariana Plezię w Archiwum UJ.
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