A Polish Physicist Visits Glasgow: Marian Smoluchowski’s Depictions of Scotland

• Authors: Budrewicz, Aleksandra

Abstracts

EN

The paper discusses selected essays by Marian Smoluchowski (1872–1917), a 19th-century Polish physicist. Smoluchowski’s scientific output was outstanding (he was a pioneer of stochastic physics); apart from science, however, he was a passionate mountaineer. Smoluchowski enjoyed travelling, one of the places he visited being Scotland. He described it in his essays, e.g. “Wycieczki górskie w Szkocji” (1896), which will be discussed here. Smoluchowski’s visions and impressions of Scotland are also placed against the backdrop of selected other 19th-century Polish travellers who visited and wrote about Scotland.

Keywords

EN

mountains; Poland; science; Scotland; travelogue

• Publisher: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw
• Journal: Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 29/3
• Pages: 73-84

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Budrewicz, Aleksandra

Identifiers

DOI

10.7311/0860-5734.29.3.06

Biblioteka Nauki

888838