Cover: 500 years since the publication of Francis Bacon‘s Novum Organum
ARTICLES
213 The depictions of alchemical laboratories: How much do they reflect
the reality? ● Vladimír Karpenko
245 The first Czechoslovak industrial robots ● František Šolc –
Lubomír Anděl
REVIEWS
265 Michal V. Šimůnek – Antonín Kostlán (eds.), Biografický slovník
obětí nacistické perzekuce 1939–1945, svazek 1 (A–K), Praha 2019 ●
Petr Svobodný
267 Schwarzer Tod und Pestabwehr im frühneuzeitlichen Hermannstadt.
Pestordnungen der Stadtärzte Johann Salzmann (1510, 1521),
Sebastian Pauschner (1530) und Johann Stubing (1561). Robert
Offner, Thomas Şindilariu vyd. Hermannstadt (Sibiu) – Bonn:
Schiller Verlag 2020 ● František Šimon
119 Editorial
ARTICLES
120 Milada Paulová and her activity in non-university science
institutions ● Daniela Brádlerová
131 Jaroslav Bidlo as a Member of the Royal Bohemian Society
of Sciences and the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts ● Marek
Ďurčanský
152 Josef Macůrek as a historian and the Brno school of historical Slavic
studies ● Radomír Vlček
188 Between filology and history. Slavonic studies in the scientific
output of Henryk Batowski ● Sebastian Grudzień
REVIEWS
207 Zvláštní číslo časopisu Centaurus: Histories of Epidemics in the time
of Covid 19. Special issue of Centaurus 62, 2020, č. 2 ● Petr Hampl
3 Editorial
AS AN INTRODUCTION TO 2020
5 Ultra Columnas Herculis: Four centuries since the publication
of the Instauratio magna by Francis Bacon ● Jan Čížek
ESSAY
14 Lessons from the Coronavirus Crisis ● Stanislav Komárek
ARTICLES
31 Alchemy in the Czech lands I. The first signs of knowledge
and its further spread during the Middle Ages ● Ivo Purš –
Vladimír Karpenko
62 Physics in the Czech lands between the scientific revolution and
the beginnings of the enlightenment (1620–1750) ● Josef Smolka
ARTICLE AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
84 Práce historika exaktních věd Josefa Smolky (1929–2020). Podíl
na formování oboru a komentovaná bibliografie ● Tomáš Hermann
REVIEWS
116 Harald SALFELLNER. Španělská chřipka. Příběh pandemie z roku
1918. Praha, Vitalis, 2018 ● Petr Hampl ● Vladimír Karpenko
Cover: 150 years of the periodic table of elements
ARTICLES
167 Competition 1804: Bolzano and mathematics in the Czech lands
at the end of the 18th century ● Jan Makovský
210 Epigenesis, the emergence of preformism and the reception of
Aristotelianism in the early modern times ● Tereza Liepoldová –
Roman Figura
COMMUNICATION
230 How I was formulating the periodical geologial scale ● Radan Květ
REVIEWS
240 Tara Nummedal: Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood. Alchemy and
End Times in Reformation Saxony. University of Pennsylvania Press,
2019 ● Vladimír Karpenko
CHRONICLE
243 Philosophy and History of Science in Collaboration with
Academic Institutions in Great Britain and the USA in 2019 ●
Tomáš Hermann
REPORTS
246 Reports from literature
ARTICLES
101 The new waste water treatment plant in Prague – comparison of the
interwar and postwar approach ● Kryštof Drnek
121 The diachronic databases containing women in the Central Europe
as regards to the biographical studies ● Lenka Křížová
133 The most common solutions of horizontal structures of tenement
buildings at the turn of the 20th centuriy ● Klára Kroftová
REWIEVS
144 Bohdana Divišová. Francouzská nemoc v radách lékařů 16. století.
Vznik a vývoj konsiliární literatury na příkladech francouzských,
italských a německých představitelů medicíny. [The French Disease in
the Physicians‘ Counsels of the 16th Century: the Origins and Evolution
of the Consilia Literature illustrated with works of French, Italian, and
German Medical Leaders] Praha, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2018 ●
Šárka Caitlín Rábová
147 Soňa Štrbáňová. Bohuslav Raýman. Vědec, vlastenec a Evropan.
[Bohuslav Raýman: Scientist, Patriot, Europian] Studie
Národohospodářského ústavu Josefa Hlávky 1/2019. Praha, 2019 ●
Jan Janko
150 Soňa Štrbáňová. Bohuslav Raýman. Vědec, vlastenec a Evropan. Studie
Národohospodářského ústavu Josefa Hlávky 1/2019. Praha, 2019 ●
Jiří Jindra
156 Ernst Haeckel: Ausgewählte Briefwechsel. Historisch-kritische Ausgabe.
Band 2: Familienkorrespondenz August 1854 – März 1857. Franz
Steiner Verlag, 2019 ● Lenka Ovčáčková
CHRONICLE
162 1st Conference of the International Academy of the History of
Science Athens, Greece, 12-15 September 2019 ● Milada Sekyrková
163 A new electrochemical event in the Heyrovsky Institute ● Jiří Jindra
ARTICLES
53 The story of Babetta’s design ● Zdeno Kolesár
66 Baltasar Conrad (1599–1660) and his appeal to European scientists ●
Josef Smolka
79 Social and cultural history of technology: Toward conceptualization
of technology in Anglo-Saxon history I. (up to 1970) ● Jiří Janáč
REVIEWS
95 Jiří Luňáček: Austrian military health service during the Napoleonic
Wars. Operation of the main field hospitals in Moravia in 1813–1814.
Olomouc, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Filozofická fakulta,
2018 ● Vojtěch Szajkó
98 Martin Kohlrausch and Helmuth Trischler: Building Europe on
Expertise. Innovators, Organisers, Networkers. Palgrave-Macmillan,
2014 ● Helena Durnová
100 Juraj Šebesta: Founder of Slovak physics. Life and work of Dionysius
Ilkovic. Bratislava, Spektrum STU ● Jiří Jindra
CHRONICLE
101 Two electrochemical events ● Jiří Jindra
102 Colloquium Visuality-Science-Perception ● Lucie Čermáková
REPORTS
102 Reports from literature
AS AN INTRODUCTION TO 2019
3 The Periodic System of Elements: Successes and Failures ● Vladimír
Karpenko
ARTICLES
14 Positivismusstreit as a Dispute Over the Method of (Not Only)
Social Sciences ● Jitka Paitlová
34 A Century of History of Pharmacy in the Independent Czechoslovakia
and Czech Republic 1918–2018 ● Ladislav Svatoš
COMMUNICATION
43 Do We Really Care Less About Therapy? A Response of
prof. Ladislav Syllaba to a Passage on Healthcare in the Speech
of President T. G. Masaryk from 28. 10. 1928 (the 10th Anniversary
of the Establishment of Czechoslovakia) ● Ludmila Hlaváčková
REVIEWS
47 Martina Bečvářová and Ivan Netuka: The Impact of the First World
War on International Collaboration of Mathematicians. Praha, Česká
technika – nakladatelství ČVUT, 2019 ● Jiří Veselý
49 J. Veis (ed.). Neurochirurg (On the 80th Anniversary of Professor
MUDr. Eduard Zvěřina, DrSc., FCMA). Praha, 3. LF UK, 2018 ●
Jiří Jindra
NEWS
50 News from literature
Cover: 500 years of Klaudyan’s map of Bohemia
PAPERS
241 The Institute of Zoology of the German University in Prague During the Interwar Era ● Petr Hampl
263 The Institute of Geography of the German University in Prague ● Jiří Martínek
276 The Beginnings of Electrification of Railways in the Czech Republic ● Radim Ječný
REVIEWS
300 Václav Grubhoffer. Zdánlivá smrt. Noční můra osvícenské Evropy / Apparent Death. Europe‘s Nightmare in the Age of Enlightenment. Polička, Městská knihovna Polička a Praha,
Argo, 2018 ● Ludmila Hlaváčková
301 Doubravka Olšáková – Jiří Janáč. Kult jednoty. Stalinský plán přetváření přírody v Československu 1948–1964 / The Cult of Unity. Stalin‘s Plan for the Transformation of Nature in
Czechoslovakia (1948–1964). Praha, Academia 2018 ● Jan Janko
REPORTS
303 Reports from literature
PAPERS
169 Algology and protistology at the German University in Prague in the inter-war period, II. Ernst Georg Pringsheim and Institute for Plant Physiology ● Jiří Neustupa
196 Algebra in Pacioli´s work Summa (1494) ● Luboš Nový
REVIEWS
226 Alisha Rankin. Panaceia´s Daughters. Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany. Chicago-London, 2013 ● Bohdana Divišová
228 Milan Novák – Michal V. Šimůnek. Zdraví nemocní říšští protektoři v Čechách a na Moravě//Healthy ill protectors of Reich in Bohemia and Moravia. Lékařsko-historický příspěvek k biografiím Konstantina von Neuratha, Reinharda Heydricha, Kurta Daluegeho a Wilhelma Fricka. Praha, 2018 ● Petr Svobodný
229 Ondřej Durczak. Důkazy objevů//Evidence of discoveries. Fotografie ve vědě v letech 1839–1939. Ostrava, 2017 ● Jiří Jindra
230 Zoltán Oláh – Alena Furdová – Peter Strmeň – Vladimír Krásník. Očná klinika Lékarskej fakulty Univerzity Komenského od svojich začiatkov po súčasnosť//Eye Clinic of the Faculty of Medicine of the Comenius University … 100th Anniversary. 100. výročie činnosti. Bratislava, 2018 ● Jiří Jindra
CHRONICLE
232 Medicine, pharmacy and veterinary medicine in the period of the establishment of Czechoslovakia ● Hana Mášová
236 39th international conference on the history of mathematics ● Jiří Veselý
INTRODUCTION
67 Streamy Elbe river, gold vein. Several words for explanation ● Marek Ďurčanský, Michal Plavec
PAPERS
68 Floating of timber between two Bohemian towns, Kolín and Nymburk, since the time of Emperor Charles IV ● Michal Plavec
91 Report on the weirs situated on the upper and middle course of Elbe (Labe) from 1554 (and their capacity for timber rafting) ● František Iša
114 The transportation route, the source of livelihood and the element of strategy. The Elbe river during the Thirty Years’ War ●
Marek Ďurčanský
132 The Elbe river and Brandýs region in Early Modern Ages ●
Roman Kolek
REVIEWS
157 Josef Říman, František Houdek. From plow to „senate“ and back. Praha, Galén, 2017 ● Jindřich Schwippel
158 Paul Weindling (ed.). From Clinic to Concentration Camp.
London and New York, Routdlege, 2017 ● Milan Novák
CHRONICLE
161 Percieve a second. Experiencing time in the Czech culture
in 19th century ● Hana Mášová
REPORTS
166 Reports from literature
AS AN INTRODUCTION TO 2018
3 Klaudyan’s map is 500 years old ● Jiří Martínek
PAPERS
10 Wardian case, simple invention that changed the world ●
Jakub Kocurek
32 Photo-documentation of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in the first decade of its existence ● Vlasta Mádlová
REVIEWS
57 Jahrbuch der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 2015. Berlin/Boston, 2016 ● Jiří Jindra
60 Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. Jahresbericht 2016 ● Jindřich Schwippel
CHRONICLE
62 Workshop Modern electroanalytical methods on Albertov ●
Jiří Jindra
62 History of metallurgical production in Bohemia ● Jiří Jindra
63 Colloquium Visuality – Science – Perception ● Lucie Čermáková
REPORTS
64 Reports from literature
Cover: The bicentenary of the Journal ISIS
ESSAY
225 The rise and fall of German biology ● Stanislav Komárek
PAPERS
234 Algology and protistology at the German University in Prague
in the inter-war period, I. Adolf Pascher and his legacy ●
Jiří Neustupa
259 For the republic and democracy: Karel Weigner between
freemasons and eugenicists ● Rudolf Kardoš – Jan Musil
REVIEWS
281 Vladimír Karpenko, Ivo Purš, Martin Žemla. The theatre of
eternal Knowledge and philosophical alchemy of Heinrich
Khunrath. Praha, 2017 ● Josef Smolka
282 Uwe Hoßfeld. Geschichte der biologischen Anthropologie in
Deutschland. Von den Anfängen bis in die Nachkriegszeit.
Stuttgart, 2016 ● Michal V. Šimůnek
283 Renilde Loeckx. Cold War Triangle: How scientists in East and
West tamed HIV. Leuven University Press, 2017 ● Libor
Grubhoffer
CHRONICLE
285 The 43th international congress for the history of pharmacy in
Warszawa ● Tünde Ambrus
286 Wichterle’s contact lenses ● Jiří Jindra
287 Seminar in Albertov ● Jiří Jindra
REPORTS
288 Reports from literature
290 Review procedure in 2017
PAPERS
157 History of tuberculosis and its treatment ● Štěpán Tonar
174 Telč college pharmacy and its custodians ● Markéta Holubová
COMMUNICATION
192 New acquisition of the National Library and its meaning for the
history of astronomy ● Petr Hadrava – Alena Hadravová
REVIEWS
209 Cathy Cobb, Monty L. Fetterolf, Harold Goldwhite. The
Chemistry of Alchemy. From Dragon’s Blood to Donkey Dung.
New York, 2014 ● Vladimír Karpenko
212 Medicína, farmacie a veterinární lékařství. Kapitoly
k dějinám a vybraným tématům // Medicine, pharmacy and
veterinary medicine. Chapters to history and selected themes.
R. Slabotínský (ed.). Brno, 2017 ● Jiří Jindra
CHRONICLE
215 XIIIth workshop from the history of mathematics for teachers
at secondary schools ● Martina Bečvářová
217 Development of mathematics and related sciences in Central-
Eastern Europe in the 20th century ● Martina Bečvářová
219 Workshop in Brno ● Jiří Jindra
REPORTS
221 Reports from literature
PAPERS
83 Pluralization of suns in 17th century and its consequences ●
Daniel Špelda
106 Hájek’s metoposcopy, its sources, core and reception ● Jakub
Hlaváček
122 „Medicinisches Pest-Consilium“ and other medical treatises
published with the support of official authorities in Habsburg
Monarchy in the 2nd half of the 17th century ● Pavla Jirková
REVIEWS
140 Thomas Söderqvist (ed.). The History and Poetics of Scientific
Biography. London and New York, 2007 ● Václav Sixta
144 Libuše Spáčilová – Vladimír Spáčil. Nejstarší matrika olomoucké
university z let (1576) 1590–1651 / Die älteste Matrikel der
Olmützer Universität..., Olomouc, 2017 ● Jindřich Schwippel
146 Anna Falisová, Eva Morovicsová. Pôrodné asistentky a
ošetřovatelky na Slovensku v rokoch 1918–1938 // Midwives
and nurses at Slovakia between 1918–1938. Bratislava, 2015 ●
Hana Mášová
147 Vlasta Mádlová – Josef Tomeš (eds.). Slavní i zapomenutí. Čeští
vědci a umělci 19. století v kresbách Maxe Švabinského a Arna
Naumana // Famous and forgotten. Czech scientists and artists
of the 19the century in drawings of Max Švabinský and Arne
Nauman. Praha, 2015 ● Jiří Jindra
CHRONICLE
149 Light, shadows and darkness in the Czech culture of the 19th
century ● Hana Mášová
REPORTS
154 Reports from literature
AS AN INTRODUCTION TO 2017
3 Lorenz Oken and his encyclopedic journal Isis ● JAN JANKO – TOMÁŠ HERMANN
PAPERS
9 Medical faculties or medical academies? University training in
medicine and medical science in the Soviet Block in the 1940s to
1960s ● PETR SVOBODNÝ
28 Illness, therapy and dying in late early modern medicine:
Changing concepts between baroque period and the first half of
the 19th century ● VÁCLAV GRUBHOFFER
47 The death, the section and the embalming of the Duke Heinrich
Julius of Braunschweig, the Secret Counselor of the Emperor
Rudolf II ● BOHDANA DIVIŠOVÁ
REVIEWS
65 Lenka Vaňková. Medizinische Texte aus böhmischen und
mährischen Archiven und Bibliotheken // Medical texts from
Bohemian and Moravian Archives and Libraries. Ostrava, 2014 ●
BOHDANA DIVIŠOVÁ
66 Seith C. Rasmussen. The Quest for Aqua Vitae. Heidelberg, 2014
● VLADIMÍR KARPENKO
70 J. Kleinová a H. Králová (eds.): Věda a technika v českých zemích
v období 1. světové války // Science and technology in the Czech lands
during the WWI. Praha, 2016 ● JIŘÍ JINDRA
71 William H. Brock: The History of Chemistry. Oxford, 2016 ●
VLADIMÍR KARPENKO
CHRONICLE
75 The 37th international conference from the history of
mathematics. ● MARTINA BEČVÁŘOVÁ
77 Workshop In the footsteps of health and disease of man and
animal VI ● HANA MÁŠOVÁ
79 Miller’s symbolism or else 900 years of miller’s sign ● RUDOLF
ŠIMEK
REPORTS
80 Reports from literature
Cover: Significant anniversaries of W. v. Siemens’ discoveries and inventions in electrotechnology – 150th and 160th
INTRODUCTION
225 Guest editor’s note ● Helena Durnová, Jan Kotůlek
PAPERS
227 Marvelous mathematics. How mathematics education improved the quality of life in post war Europe? ● Danny Beckers
249 How mathematics confronts its paradoxes ● Ladislav Kvasz
265 Nymburk Lan. Several notes on the units of modern times ● Michal Plavec
REVIEWS
276 Petr Vopěnka, Marie Větrovcová. Uvedení do obecné topologie a jejích dějin do roku 1960 // Introduction to general topology and its history till 1960. Praha – Plzeň, 2015 ● Jan Zeman
278 Martina Bečvářová. Matematika na Německé univerzitě v Praze v letech 1882–1945 // Mathematics at the German University in Prague between 1882–1945. Praha, 2016 ● Jiří Veselý
280 Erhard Brepohl. Theophilus Presbyter und das mittelalterliche Kunsthandwerk // Theophilus Presbyter and medieval art handicraft ● Ivan Hlaváček
CHRONICLE
282 Winter school of the history of mathematics 2016 ● Jana Pokorná – Jan Kotůlek
283 Light and Shadow. Ernst Mach | Ludwig Mach ● Wilhelm Füssl – Johannes-Geert Hagm ann
History of Sciences and Technology
volume XLIX – 2016 / number 4
REPORTS
287 Reports from literature
288 Review procedure in 2016
PAPERS
141 Hagecius Hermeticus. Astrological context of the scientific work of Tadeáš Hájek z Hájku (Thadeus Hagecius) ● Vojtěch Hladký
162 Importance of the gold mining in the medieval history of the Czech lands ● Petr Morávek
178 Investment and modernization of the Joint-stock Brewery in Smíchov in the years 1869–1918 ● Martin Minařík
COMMUNICATION
194 Joseph Stepling in the Royal Society Archive ● Josef Smolka
REVIEWS
207 Historia litteraria v českých zemích od 17. do počátku 19. století/Historia litteraria in the Czech lands from 17th to the beginning of the 19th centuries. Praha, 2015 ● Antonín Kostlán
208 Galileo Galilei: Hvězdný posel. Johannes Kepler: Rozprava s hvězdným poslem/Galileo Galilei: Astral herald. Johannes Kepler: Disputation with astral herald. Translated by Alena and Petr Hadravovi. Příbram, 2016 ● Antonín Kostlán
2013 Jahresbericht 2015 der Max-Planck-Geselschaft ● Jindřich Schwippel
CHRONICLE
215 36th International konference History of mathematics ● Martina Bečvářová
216 XIIth Workshop from the history of mathematics for teachers at secondary schools ● Martina Bečvářová
218 Minerva armata – Le università e la Grande guerra ● Martina Bečvářová
REPORTS
220 Reports from literature
PAPERS
61 New, beautiful, German and Czech: The Division of university Botanical Garden in Prague (1882–1898) ● Lucie Čermáková
87 Nursing education between tradition and modernity: efforts to enforce Anglo-Saxon model in the interwar Czechoslovakia ● Růžena Zaoralová
COMMUNICATION
110 Botanical document from the half of the 18th century –Joannes Kisling (1713–1748) ● Josef Smolka
REVIEWS
127 Kaspar Schott an Athanasius Kircher. Briefe 1650–1664. Würzburg, 2016 ● Josef Smolka
130 Erling Norrby. Nobelovy ceny a přírodní vědy. Praha, 2013 ● Jiří Jindra, sr.
CHRONICLE
135 Science – nation – history ● Jiří Jindra, sr.
REPORTS
136 Reports from literature
AS AN INTRODUCTION TO 2016
3 160th anniversary of the Siemens double-T anchor in
dynamo-electric machines ● Jan Mikeš, Marcela Efmertová
PAPERS
8 Reception of Darwin’s evolutionary theory in the work of John
Lubbock (1834–1913) and William Crookes (1832–1919) ●
Pavel Pecháček
26 Tumours in works of Carl Rokitansky and Rudolph Virchow –
a new paradigm in medicine ● Jan Hrudka
COMMUNICATION
45 Edition of John Lubbock’s books in Czech language at the turn
of the 19th and 20th centuries and his correspondence with
Czech translators ● Pavel Pecháček
REVIEWS
52 Jan Apotheker – Livia Simon Sarkadi (eds.). European Women in
Chemistry. Weinheim, 2011 + Elena Zajceva (Baum) – Taťjana
V. Bogatova (eds.). Ženščiny – chimiki. Moskva, 2013 ● Soňa
Štrbáňová
55 Astrologers and their Clients in Medieval and Early Modern
Europe. Beihefte zum Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, 73, 2015 ●
Ivan Hlaváček
REPORTS
56 Reports from literature
Cover: 150th anniversary of the presentation of Gregor Johann Mendel’s research
The issue is dedicated to the 7th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science to be held in Prague, 22–24 September, 2016
papers
199 “Provincial” universities and scientific networks in the Habsburg monarchy. Introductory remarks ● Mitchell G. Ash
205 Absolute loyalty or the calm before the storm? Some events at the Prague University in the first half of the 19th century ● Milada Sekyrková
217 Communicating politics in the dissecting room. The influence of medical students and physicians from Prague Charles-Ferdinand
University on the liberal model of human progress at Vienna University ● Felicitas Seebacher
229 Gathering Experience Abroad. The study-tours of students and teachers from the Technical University of Budapest 1899–1914 ● Attila Szilárd Tar
240 The dichotomy of students and university teachers of Slovenian descent between academic careers and the expectations of the
Slovenian nationalists. From the March revolution to the dissolution of the Habsburg monarchy ● Ana Cergol Paradiž – Željko Oset
259 Alma mater Carolo-Ferdinandea – Alma mater Jagellonica. Mutual inspirations and contacts between Czech Charles-Ferdinand
University in Prague and Jagiellonian University in Cracow 1882–1918 ● Marek Ďurčanský
274 Turning „province“ to a „centre“? Ambitions to establish institutionalized network of Slavic scientists at the turn of the 19th century ● Soňa Štrbáňová
REVIEWS
311 Leah DeVun: Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time. John
of Rupescissa in the Late Middle Ages // Proroctví, alchymie
a konec času. John of Rupecissa v pozdním středověku.
Columbia University Press, 2014 ● Vladimír Karpenko
REPORTS
314 Reports from literature
316 Review procedure in 2015
PAPERS
135 Valeriano Magni (1586–1661) on the void ● Tomáš Nejescheba
151 Short message of Ottaviano Rovereti, doctor of Rudolf II ● Bohdana Divišová
REVIEWS
174 Claus Priesner. Chemie. Eine illustrierte Geschichte. Darmstadt, 2015 ● Vladimír Karpenko
175 Věda a technika v českých zemích mezi světovými válkami/Science and technology in the Czech lands between world wars. Jana Kleinová (ed.) Praha, 2014 ● Jiří Jindra
179 Deník profesora Josefa Charváta z roku 1945/Diary of Professor Josef Charvát from 1945. Marie Bahenská a Hana Barvíková (eds.). Praha, 2014 ● Hana Mášová
180 Kapitoly z dějin medicíny a veterinárního lékařství/Chapters from the history of medicine and veterinary medicine. R. Slabotínský a P. Stöhrová (eds.) Brno, 2015 ● Jiří Jindra
183 Martina Bečvářová – Ivan Netuka. Karl Löwner and his student Lipman Bers – Pre-war Prague mathematicians. Zürich, 2015 ● Jiří Veselý
CHRONICLE
185 The 42nd international congress for the history of pharmacy ● Tünde Ambrus
185 History of chemistry in Dresden ● Jiří Jindra
187 The international workshop to the history of human and veterinary medicine and pharmacy in Brno ● Jiří Jindra
188 Viennese conference on science, technology and industrial development in the Central Europe during the Cold War ● Antonín Kostlán
192 70 years of the studying pharmacy in Brno ● Jiří Jindra
192 The 56th workshop from the history of metallurgy ● Jiří Jindra
REPORTS
193 Reports from literature
PAPERS
67 Idea of scientific philosophy in Franz Brentano ● Pavel Lomička
85 Transformation of the Czech brewery as mirrored in the development of technology, science, and technique and the application of its results in practice in the 19th century ● Michal Horáček
COMMUNICATION
102 Newly Deciphered Manuscript with Fragments of Ancient Works on Constellations from the 6th Century (Codex Climaci Rescriptus) ● Alena Hadravová – Petr Hadrava
REVIEWS
108 Lucie Storchová a kol. Koncepty a dějiny/Drafts and history. Praha, 2014 ● Iva Lelková
113 Martin Franc – Vlasta Mádlová. Dějiny Akademie věd v obrazech/Illustrated history of the Academy of Sciences. Praha, 2013 ● Jiří Jindra
116 Helena Kokešová. Eduard Albert (1841–1900). Praha, 2014 ● Ludmila Hlaváčková
117 Pivo, zbraně i tvarůžky/Beer, weapons, and even cakes of cheese. Drahomír Jančík – Barbora Štolleová (eds.). Praha, 2014 ● Bohumír Smutný
CHRONICLE
121 Mathematics and mathematicians in world war I ● Martina Bečvářová
122 Exact sciences and mathematics in Central-Eastern Europe from the mid-XIX century till WWII ● Martina Bečvářová
125 Eleven international symposium to the history of medicine, pharmacy and veterinary medicine, June 2015 ● Hana Mášová
128 Unfulfilled anniversary of the journal Collection ● Jiří Jindra
REPORTS
129 Reports from literature
AS AN INTRODUCTION TO 2015
3 150 years since the presentation of results of G. J. Mendel’s experimental research ● Michal Šimůnek
PAPERS
6 From medicine to botany – Milestone Zalužanský ● Lucie Čermáková – Jan Janko
25 Pythagorean board in the Early Latin Middle Ages ● Marek Otisk
REVIEWS
50 Ivana Fialová – Daniela Tvrdoňová (eds.). Od špitála k nemocnici/From the medieval hospital to the present one. Bratislava 2013 ● Petr Svobodný
52 Rafał T. Prinke. Zwodniczy ogród błędów/Deceptive garden faults. Warszawa, 2014 ● Vladimír Karpenko
55 Miloš Grim (ed.) – Ondřej Naňka – Karel Černý (ed.). Anatomie od Vesalia po současnost/Anatomy from Vesalius to the present
times. Praha, 2014 ● Jan Pastor
58 Martin Vonka: Tovární komíny…/Factory chimneys: Function – construction – architecture. Praha, 2014 ● Petr Svobodný
CHRONICLE
60 Threatened universities? ● Jiří Jindra
60 Czech science and technology during the Great War ● Jiří Jindra
61 Successes of the Czech science and technology ● Jiří Jindra
REPORTS
63 Reports from literature
Cover: 500th anniversary of Copernicus’ Commentariolus, first mentioned in 1514
PAPERS
223 Alchemist Petr Hlavsa in services of Wilhelm von Rosenberg (Vilém z Rožmberka) – the world of thought and social conditions of Bohemian alchemist in the 16th century ● Magda Dostálová
238 Italian journey of J. M. Marci and Fr. K. Sternberg (1640) ● Josef Smolka
247 “If houses could speak.” The Building of the Chemical-Technological Engineering Institute in Prague-Dejvice and architect Severin Ondřej (1889–1964) ● Milena Josefovičová
REVIEWS
262 Alica Kapellerová – László Kovács. 150 rokov… [150 anniversary of the children’s hospital in Bratislava]. Bratislava, 2005 ● Petr Svobodný
264 Karel Chobot. Dějiny hmyzu… [History of insect in pictures, history of picture of insect]. Červený Kostelec, 2010 ● Monika Špeldová
266 Libor Koudela: O pojetí křivky [On conception of curve]. Kanina, 2013 ● Josef Janyška
269 Doubravka Olšáková. Věda jde k lidu! [Science goes to people!]. Praha, 2013 ● Miroslav Kunštát
276 Martin Franc a kolektiv. Dějiny ÚOCHB [History of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry]. Praha, 2013 ● Jindřich Schwippel
281 Dušan Kováč a kolektiv. Dejiny SAV [History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences]. Bratislava, 2014 ● Jiří Jindra
CHRONICLE
283 Conference on correspondence of scholars ● Josef Smolka
REPORTS
284 Reports from literature
PAPERS
141 Genre of literary dream as an intellectual experiment of Early Modern science ● Iva Lelková
152 Orbis Naturalis Pictus: Illustration of nature, wieving of the marvellous. Legitimization of natural history illustration ● Jana Černá
176 Czech Translations of Albrant’s (Albrecht’s) Horse Medicine ● Alena M. Černá
COMMUNICATION
198 Neo-Darwinism and August Weismann ● Uwe HossfeLd, Michal V. Šimůnek & Ulrich Kutschera
DOCUMENT
207 Appeal to all Europeans ● Michal V. Šimůnek (ed.)
REVIEWS
210 Nancy G. Siraisi. Communities of Learned Experience. Epistolary Medicine in the Renaissance. Baltimore, 2013 ● Bohdana Divišová
213 Ivana Lorencová. Významné osobnosti české chemie v Archivu Národního technického muzea v Praze. Praha, 2013 ● Martin Franc
CHRONICLE
215 The 35th International Conference History of Mathematics ● Martina Bečvářová
217 Workshop of veterinaries, pharmacists and historians of science in Brno ● Jiří Jindra
REPORTS
219 Reports from literature
PAPERS
75 Science and scientists mirrored in daily (intimate) notes of Bohumil Němec ● Jan Janko
91 Alchemist Petr Hlavsa in services of Wilhelm von Rosenberg (Vilém z Rožmberka) – operational processes and technical equipment of laboratory ● Magda Dostálová
COMMUNICATION
111 Assertion of Newton’s theory in France in 18th century and attempts to question it ● Jiřina Krausová
REVIEWS
127 Jindřich Chatrný – Radana Červená (eds.). Otakar Teyschl. Univerzitní profesor – lékař – sběratel – mecenáš. Brno, 2012 ● Ivan Hlaváček
129 Michal V. Šimůnek – Antonín Kostlán (eds.). Disappeared Science: Jewish Scholars from Bohemia and Moravia – Victims of Nazism, 1939–1945. Praha – Červený Kostelec, 2013 ● Petr Svobodný
132 Gill Davies. Kompletní historie medicíny. Brno, 2013 ● BoHumil Tesařík
134 Miloš Hořejš. Protektorátní Praha jako německé město. Praha, 2013 ● Michal v. Šimůnek
CHRONICLE
136 41st international congress for the history of pharmacy in Paris ● Martina Lisá
REPORTS 137 Reports from literature
AS AN INTRODUCTION TO 2014
3 Commentariolus – a „lost and found“ milestone on the way to heliocentrism ● Martin Šolc
PAPERS
14 The first international pharmaceutical exhibition, held in Viena 1883, and Austro-Hungarian pharmacy ● Ladislav Svatoš
36 Entomological history of Prague and scientific research of Prague entomofauna. Third part ● Zdeněk Koleška
REVIEWS
58 Helmut Gebelein, Rainer Werthmann. Johann Rudolph Glauber. Kitzingen am Main, 2011 ● Vladimír Karpenko
60 Annette Lykkness – Donald L. Opitz – Brigitte van Tiggelen (eds.). For better or for worse? Heidelberg–New York–Dodrecht–London, 2012 ● Soňa Štrbáňová
67 Sybille Gerstengarbe. Paula Hertwig – Genetikerin im 20. Jahr-hundert. Stuttgart, 2012 ● Michal V. Šimůnek
CHRONICLE
69 Jubilee of Emil Zimmler ● Michaela Havelková – Jan Janko
70 Divided as well as connected by mountains’ ridges ● Jiří Jindra
REPORTS 72 Reports from literature
Cover: 100th anniversary of Bohr model of the hydrogen atom
PAPERS
217 Arabic intellectual inspiration of the Latin West around year 1000 ● Marek Otisk
238 Pliny of the New World: Francisco Hernández and the first modern scientific expedition ● Jana Černá
255 Entomological history of Prague and of research of the Prague entomofauna. 2nd part ● Zdeněk Koleška
REVIEWS
271 Po stopách zdraví a nemoci člověka a zvířat II. R. Slabotínský, P. Stöhrová (eds.). Brno, 2013 ● Jiří Jindra
274 Anne C. Nagel. Hitlers Bildungsreformer. Frankfurt am Main, 2012 ● Helen Roche , Michal V. Šimůnek
CHRONICLE
276 Chemistry everywhere around us. New permanent exposition in the National Technical Museum, June 2013, Prague ● Jiří Jindra
277 Otto Wichterle in the mirror of archival documents, October 2013, Prague ● Tomáš Pavlíček
278 Czech-Norwegian workshop to the history of science, November 2013, Prague ● Helena Durnová
279 Anniversary of Emil Zimmler, November 2013, Prague ● MicHaela Havelková , Jan Janko
281 Review procedure in 2013
PAPERS
139 Template – immunological concept in the genetics’ services. On
immunological
theories in the 1st half of the 20th century and
their influence on the terminology of molecular genetics ● Jana
Hájková
151 On the ancestry of Josef Stepling ● Josef Smolka
164 Entomological history of Prague and of research of Prague
entomofauna. 1st part ● Zdeněk Koleška
COMMUNICATION
181 Rockets, rackets, or racquets? Rockets before 1618 (battle at the
Bílá Hora) in the Czech Lands ● Michal Plavec
REVIEWS
190 Claudia Stein. Negotiating the French pox in the early modern
Germany. Ashgate, 2009 ● Bohdana Divišová
194 Laura J. McGough: Gender, sexuality, and syphilis in early modern
Venice. Basingstoke – New York, 2011 ● Bohdana Divišová
199 Zbyněk Roček: Kronika zoologického poznávání. Praha, 2013 ●
Jan Janko
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200 The XIst workshop from the history of mathematics for teachers
at secondary schools ● Martina Bečvářová
202 The 34th international conference History of mathematics ●
Martina Bečvářová
203 The conference EAHMH, Lisbon 2013 ● Karel Černý
205 The international conference Perception of Sciences in Central
and Eastern Europe in the Period 1850–1920 ● Martina
Bečvářová
209 The workshop In the footsteps of man and of animals health III ●
Jiří Jindra – Hana Mášová
REPORTS
211 Reports from literature
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PAPERS
75 Supposed “discovery” of the element dvimanganese in
Czechoslovakia ● Jiří Jindra
84 Tadeáš Hájek (Thaddeus Hagecius) and Philipp Melanchthon ●
Josef Smolka
94 Some issues on syphilis seen by the physician Christophoro
Guarinoni (1534–1604) ● Bohdana Divišová
113 Curative medicine according to Professor Löw ● Pavel Drábek
REVIEWS
118 Ivo Proks: Celok je jednoduchší ako jeho časti. Bratislava, 2012 ●
Jiří Jindra
121 Lawrence M. Principe: The Secrets of Alchemy. Chicago, 2013 ●
Vladimír Karpenko
125 Zdeněk Koleška: Retrospektivní institucionální přírodovědný
slovník českých zemí, 659 s. ● Jan Janko
127 Mitchell G. Ash and Jan Surman (eds): The Nationalization of
Scientific Knowledge in the Habsburg Empire, 1848–1918.
Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 ● Antonín Kostlán
CHRONICLE
130 CERN a environs (science – arts – recycling), Prague, March 2013
● Jiří Jindra
130 Conference on the history of chemistry, Heidelberg, March 2013 ●
Jiří Jindra
REPORTS
133 Reports from literature
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AS AN INTRODUCTION TO 2013
3 Historical, philosophical and physical reflection of Bohr’s revolutionary step in 1913 . Filip Grygar
PAPERS
27 Monsters and limits of organization . Lucie Šarkadyová
COMMUNICATIONS
38 The History of Ancient Greek Language and the Contribution of Antonín Bartoněk to its Study II. The Testimony of the Inscriptions Written in Ancient Greek Dialects . Alena Hadravová
44 A forgotten invention from the early days of television. Fragments from the life and work of Jan Szczepanik, aka the Polish Edison . Vít Šmerha
REVIEWS
51 Věda a technika v Československu od normalizace k transformaci. Ivana Lorencová (ed.). Praha, NTM, 2012 . Jiří Jindra
55 Evžen Strouhal: Profesor Čeněk Strouhal – zakladatel české experimentální fyziky. Praha, Academia, 2012 . Jiří Jindra
59 Stekeler-Weithofer, Pirmin – Kaden, Heiner – Psarros, Nikolaos (eds.): An den Grenzen der Wissenschaft. Stuttgart – Leipzig, 2011. . Jan Janko
CHRONICLE
65 Repressed elite . Jiří Jindra
66 The 53rd workshop form the history of metallurgy . Jiří Jindra
66 Vegetative cytology – contemporary knowledge together with a small look into past . Jaromír Kutík
68 The exhibition Tycho Brahe . Jiří Jindra
REPORTS
69 Reports from literature
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PAPERS
213 The end of the ‘irreplaceable man.’ The liquidation of Reinhard Heydrich in a medical context. Part. II. . Michal Šimůnek
251 To the birth and fall of legend about German atom scientists who did not want to construct nuclear weapons for Nazi Germany from the moral reasons . Filip Grygar
COMMUNICATIONS
271 We still do not know why they flower… A memory of the international symposium 1964 . Jan Krekule
REVIEWS
275 Johannes Kepler: Dioptrika. Olomouc, 2011 . Josef Smolka
278 Sabine Anagnostou, Florike Egmont, Christoph Friedrich (eds.): A passion for plants: materia medica and botany in scientific networks from the 16th to 18th centuries. Stuttgart, Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2011 . Pavel Drábek
CHRONICLE
281 Gallery of founders and personalities of the ASCR Jaroslav Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry . Jiří Jindra
282 Workshop „In the footsteps of health and disease of human beings and animals II. On the history and medicine, pharmacy and veterinary medicine in Brno, 11.–12. 9. 2012“ . Hana Mášová
REPORTS
285 Reports from literature
Review procedure in 2012
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PAPERS
141 German-speaking migration of mathematicians to and from
Czechoslovakia, caused by National Socialism in Germany ●
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze
167 Science and Research in Czechoslovakia and the Model
of Central Planning of Science in 1946–1960 ● Doubravka
Olšáková
182 Conquerors of the Ultraviolet World ● Pavel Pecháček
REVIEWS
193 Ivo Cerman: Šlechtická kultura v 18. století. Filozofové, mystici,
politici. Praha, 2011 ● Jan Janko
195 Claus Priesner: Geschichte der Alchemie. München, 2011 ●
Vladimír Karpenko
198 Apotheker Kalender 2012. Calendar for Pharmacists. Stuttgart,
Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 2012 ● Pavel Drábek
199 Irene R. Lauterbach: Friedrich Witte (1829–1893). Stuttgart,
Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 2011 ● Pavel Drábek
CHRONICLE
200 The 10th International Symposium on the History of Medicine,
Pharmacy and Veterinary Medicine, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2012 ●
Jiří Jindra
203 The 33th International Conference on the History
of Mathematics ● Martina Bečvářová
REPORTS
205 Reports from literature
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PAPERS
61 Was Bruno burned at the stake because of his cosmological
ideas? ● Daniel Špelda
88 The First Ideological Conference of Academic Workers in
Brno and its place in the history of Czechoslovak
linguistics in the fifties of the twentieth century ● Vít
Boček
105 Vladimír Bárta and his contribution to the formation of
the Czechoslovak electro-technical industry ● Eva Mušková
COMMUNICATION
124 Ignaz Edler von Born and the Royal Society ● Mikuláš
Teich
CHRONICLE
129 Science and technology in Czechoslovakia from
“normalization” to “transformation” (1970s–1990s) ●
Ivana Lorencová
131 Significant anniversary of the Moscow Institute for the
History of Sciences and Technology ● Soňa Štrbáňová
134 Phenomenal woman ● Jiří Jindra
REPORTS
136 Reports from literature
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AS AN INTRODUCTION TO 2012
3 Significance of the continental drift theory of Alfred
Wegener ● Aleš Špičák
PAPERS
7 The end of the „irreplaceable man“. Liquidation
of R. Heydrich in the medical context. (Part I.) ● Michal
V. Šimůnek
30 Vladimír J. A. Novák (1919–1997) and history of one
concept (Part II.) ● Petr Hampl
REVIEWS
46 Alchymie a Rudolf II. Ivo Purš a Vladimír Karpenko (eds.).
Praha 2011 ● Mikuláš Teich
48 Ivan Kupčík: Alte Landkarten. Stuttgart 2011 ● Eva
Semotanová
51 Karel Wágner: Poltergeist existuje! Praha 2011 ● Vladimír
Karpenko
CHRONICLE
53 32nd International Conference on History
of Mathematics ● Martina Bečvářová
55 10th Workshop from the History of Mathematics for
Teaching at Secondary Schools ● Martina Bečvářová
57 Conference Archeology & Anthropology, Prague,
November 16, 2011 ● Lucia Hlavenková
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Cover: 250 anniversary of the verification of irrationality of number π (Lambert)
PAPERS
219 Evolution born moist: Analogies and parallels of
Anaximander’s primeval evolution and Darwinian
evolution ● Radim Kočandrle – Karel Kleisner
237 Chosen undertakings of colonization of the same locators
in Bohemia ● Zuzana Pešková
COMMUNICATION
261 Scouring board in Helpa – technical and cultural relic
of the traditional craft in Slovakia ● Pavol Sakáč
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147 Vladimír J. A. Novák (1919.1997) and history of one concept ● Petr Hampl
165 Forest crafts and the development of chemical wood processing technology in the early-modern period ● Jiří Woitsch
COMMUNICATION
182 Collection of University Lectures and University Textbooks in the Archives of the Czech National Technical Museum ● Zdeněk Vácha
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PAPERS
225 Andrias Scheuchzeri and Andrias Bohemicus (not only)
in the Czech Culture and Science • Marco Stella – Iva
Lelková
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249 History of Biology and its Grande Dame Ilse Jahn
(1922–2010) • Tomáš Hermann – Uwe Hoßfeld – Michal
Šimůnek
255 Philipp Weselsky – Professor of Analytical Chemistry of
the Vienna Technical University – 1828–1889 • Jiří Jindra
INTERVIEW
263 From the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences to Exile.
Břetislav Friedrich • The interview was conducted by
Milena Josefovičová
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1 Unsuccessful Candidates for the Nobel Prizes for
Chemistry till 1956 • JIŘÍ JINDRA
17 “Disgusting” Medicaments in the Czech Medieval
Manuscripts • ALENA M. ČERNÁ
29 The Beginnings of the Radon Spa, Joachimsthal,
Bohemia. Part II. Medical reports: medical indications,
applications, and patients • EMILIE TĚŠÍNSKÁ
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233 Unsuccessful Candidates for the Nobel Prizes for Physics
Until 1956 • JIŘÍ JINDRA
255 New Views on the Antikythera Mechanism • ALENA
HADRAVOVÁ – PETR HADRAVA
267 Historical Survey of the Czech Participation in the
International Entomological Congresses in the 20th
Century • ZDENĚK KOLEŠKA
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145 Problems of Retrospective Diagnostics in the History
of Medicine • KAREL ČERNÝ
155 On Diagnostics in Czech Written Medical Collections
of the 15th and 16th Centuries • DAVID TOMÍČEK
173 Description of Dissection of Melchior’s from Redern
Body in Havlíčkův Brod According to Funeral
Preachment on September 20, 1600 • MILAN SVOBODA
185 The Level of Diagnostics in the 17th and 19th Century
Based on Patients’ Reports of Prague Brothers’ of
Charity and “Alžbětinky” Hospitals • IVANA EBELOVÁ
199 Diagnosis in the Diary of Physician Dr. J. Hruš from 1840
• LUDMILA HLAVÁČKOVÁ
205 The Beginning of the Radon Spa, Jochamisthal, Bohemia.
Part I. Its Organization: Impulses and Connections
• EMILIE TĚŠÍNSKÁ
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65 Table of Lunar Equations in Paulerinus’ Encyclopedy and
its Comparison with Almagest, Toletan and Alfonsine
Tables • ALENA HADRAVOVÁ – PETR HADRAVA
85 Thaddaeus Hagecius’ Metoposcopical Aphorisms • JOSEF
SMOLKA – MARTIN ŠOLC
103 „Des deifels goltmacher haben kein golt im Peitl“. Story
of the Imperial Chymicus Wenzel Seiler in the Light of
Documents of the Archive of Town Brno • RUDOLF SOUKUP
– JAROMÍR HLADÍK
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130 Nearly Forgotten Physician Josef Čejka • JOSEF ŽÁN
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1 Group “Health Care” of the Office of Reichsprotektor in
Bohemia and Moravia in 1939–1942. Part II – Staff and
Agenda • MICHAL ŠIMŮNEK
27 Elektrochemical Power Sources in Czechoslovakia
till 1989. Chapter from the History of Czech
Electrochemistry. Part II. Secondary Cells
(Accumulators) • JIŘÍ JINDRA
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PAPERS
209 • History of the Confiscated Property of the Czech Technical
University in 1939–1945 • MILENA JOSEFOVIČOVÁ
229 • (Half) Forgotten Inventor Vladimír Svatý • VLASTIMIL HAVLÍK
COMMUNICATION
239 • On Forty Years of Our Journal • PAVEL DRÁBEK
BIBLIOGRAPHY
243 • Bibliography of Papers Published in DVT – Dějiny věd a techniky
in 1993–2007 • PAVEL DRÁBEK
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ESSAY
137 • The 20th Century and the Development of Technology and
Science • JAROSLAV FOLTA
PAPERS
151 • Intellectuals Saved from Nazism by Turkey: The Czechoslovak
Connection • ARNOLD REISMAN
175 • Electrochemical sources of current in Czechoslovakia till 1989.
Chapter from the history of Czech electrochemistry. Part I.
Primary cells, lithium cells, conductive polymers, and composite
electrodes • JIŘÍ JINDRA
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65 • Research of Heredity – on Route to Understanding of Mendel’s Discovery • VÍTĚZSLAV OREL
73 • Origin of the National Enterprise Biogena • RICHARD R. SENČEK
87 • The Beginnings of the Czech Electrochemistry (to 1920) • JIŘÍ JINDRA
103 • The Czechoslovak Betatron • IGOR JANOVSKÝ
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119 • The Beginnings of the Ether Anaesthesia in Moravia in February 1847 • JAKUB VETEŠNÍK
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1 • On Contacts of Georg Buquoy (1781–1851) with Scholars Abroad • LUBOŠ NOVÝ
13 • The Historical Development of Application Techniques for the
Protection of Plants in the Czech lands • ZDENĚK KOLEŠKA
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35 • Vladislav Přistoupil as one of the First Czech Research Chemists in the Association for the Chemical and
Metallurgical Production • IVANA LORENCOVÁ
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PAPERS
225 • From ‘Gnoseology’ in the Development of Genetics to Philosophy of Global Problems • VÍTĚZSLAV OREL
239 • Medicine and the Liberal Arts in the Middle Ages •
DAVID TOMÍČEK
257 • On some Information on Alchemistic Coins and Medals • VLADIMÍR KARPENKO
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PAPERS
153 • Changes of Linear Measures in the Czech Mining and their
Reasons • LADISLAV JANGL
171 • First Patents of the Magnetically Levitated Trains •
MARTIN JEDLIČKA
181 • Representation of Zoology and Entomology at Congresses of
Czech Naturalists and Physicians in Prague •
ZDENĚK KOLEŠKA
DOCUMENT
201 • Curriculum vitae of PhDr. Josef Podpěra • VLADIMÍR VACEK
(Ed.)
INFO
209 • The European Society for History of Science (ESHS) •
SOŇA ŠTRBÁŇOVÁ
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REFLECTION
81 • Museum of C. Sternberg and Academia of J. E. Purkyně •
JAN JANKO
PAPERS
87 • Sur le retentissement des travaux mathématiques de
B. Bolzano • LUBOŠ NOVÝ
97 • Redox Deposition of Metals from Solutions as Alleged
Transmutation • VLADIMÍR KARPENKO
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PAPERS
1 • To Forty Years of the Society for the History of Sciences and
Technology • PAVEL DRÁBEK – JAROSLAV FOLTA
9 • History of Science and Technology Between Science and
Popularisation • LUBOŠ NOVÝ
31 • Historical Research at the Restoration of Genetics in Brno after
1948 • VÍTĚZSLAV OREL
55 • Jan Kořan, Significant Researcher and Organizer of the History
of Sciences and Technology • MILOŠ HOŘEJŠ
59 • Important Moments in the Work of the Plzeň Branch of the
Society in the Past 40 Years + Portrait of Vladimír Bárta •
DANIEL MAYER
63 • Founders of the Olomouc and Brno Branch of the Society •
JIŘINA KALENDOVSKÁ
DOCUMENTS 65 • To the Czechoslovak Society for the History of Sciences and
Technology Origin (from the Report at the Establishing
General Assembly on April 9, 1965) • JAN KOŘAN
70 • Establishment of the Czechoslovak Society for the History of
Sciences and Technology • JOSEF SMOLKA
73 • Establishing General Assembly of the Slovak Committee of
the Czechoslovak Society for the History of Sciences and
Technology • MÁRIA BOKESOVÁ-UHEROVÁ
SUMMARY
74 • Contributions to the Forty Years of the Society for the History
of Sciences and Technology
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The Wright brothers made the first successful flight in a powered heavier than-air machine in North Carolina in 1903— on the cover
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REPORTS Reports from literature /150, 210, 218, 227, 251/
REPORTS Reports from literature /76, 98, 122/
REPORTS Reports from literature /24, 36, 48/
CONTENTS Contents of Volume XXXIV (2001) /64/
REPORTS Reports from literature /260, 295/
REPORTS Reports from literature /232/
REPORTS Reports from literature /128, 142, 167/
SOCIETY Report on the Society for the History of Sciences and
Technology (1998-2000) /165/
REPORTS Reports from literature /8, 38, 52, 62/
CONTENTS Contents of Volume XXXIII (2000) /103/
NOTICE Notice, Offer of Our Publications /90/
The 500th anniversary of death of Czech polyhistor Tadeáš Hájek z Hájku (Thaddeus Hagecius)-–on the cover
JOURNAL Journals on the History of Science and Technology /175/ ANNOUNCEMENT Special Issue (No 5) to Milenium /176/
REPORTS from literature /118/
ANNOUNCEMENT XXIth International Congress for the History of Science;
Selected bibliography of the Czech Historians (Josef Smolka) /120/
The 100th anniversary of the founding of the Technical University, Brno, is commemorated by this part of its chancellor’ chain on the cover
REPORTS from literature
ANNOUNCEMENT