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Obraz Niemca w oczach Polaka, obraz Polaka w oczach Niemca. Studium nad staropolskimi traktatami kosmologicznymi przełomu XV i XVI wieku

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Zawadzki R. K.

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Historicolitteraria

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2022

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vol. 22

39-59

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In this article the author discusses scientific and cultural Polish-German relations at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries. These considerations are based on the old Polish cosmographers: Wojciech of Brudzew, Jan of Głogów, Wawrzyniec Korwin and Jan of Stobnica. These works show that German scholars were regarded as scientific authorities and were an inspiration and source of knowledge for Polish scholars. However, the cosmological treatise by Jan of Głogów shows that Poles associated Germans with vice and crime, as evidenced by the example of Pontius Pilate, the governor of Judea, who was attributed German origins. The picture of Germans and their lands painted by Old-Polish cosmographers is apparently based on ancient and later authors, especially Solinus, Strabon and Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini. Significant excerpts from these works were also made available to Polish readers to show them a multifaceted panorama of the Germanic lands. Wawrzyniec Korwin’s treatise also contains the opinions of Germans about Poland and Poles. The western neighbors of Poland-Lithuania were particularly keen on Cracow and its famous university and academic staff. The two nations were undeniably fascinated by each other’s science.

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Zbigniew Morsztyn spotyka Stephena Dedalusa

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Kuligowski P.

Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo

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2021

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issue 11 (14)

315-333

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Originating from the concept of literature being total and timeless, the essay rereads Zbigniew Morsztyn’s Myśl ludzka [Human Thought] and a short passage from James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The cosmographies identified in both texts prove to be not just allegorical maps of the human thought − a baroque and modernist one referred to as geocentric and egocentric one respectively but also reversed copies of each other. Joyce andMorsztyn independently discovered this ‘everything’ − a virtual content of the human thought, just as Augustine of Hippo had before them and described it in the tenth book of his Confessions. Both Morsztyn and Joyce figuratively described this microscopic substance of thought as infinite in Pascal’s terms yet, strangely enough, their descriptions are somewhat symmetrically reversed.

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Esej wyrasta z namysłu nad totalnością literatury − i jej bezczasowością. Stanowi próbę odczytania na nowo Myśli ludzkiej Zbigniewa Morsztyna i zarazem krótkiego ustępu Portretu artysty z czasów młodości Jamesa Joyce’a. Znalezione w obu tekstach kosmografie okazują się nie tylko alegorycznymi mapami ludzkiej duszy − odpowiednio barokowej (geocentrycznej) i modernistycznej (egocentrycznej) − ale też negatywowymi kopiami samych siebie. Joyce i Morsztyn, tak jak św. Augustyn w dziesiątej księdze Wyznań, znaleźli w swoich duszach „wszystko”. Obaj, w sposób figuratywny, opisali mikroskopijną zawartość myślenia jako nieskończoną w Pascalowskim sensie tego pojęcia − jakkolwiek ich opisy, o dziwo, są względem siebie jakby symetrycznie odwrócone.

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The Origin of Copernicus’s Heliocentrism Reconsidered

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Goddu A.

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki

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2018

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vol. 63

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issue 4

9–19

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The essay re-examines the detailed arguments by Ludwik Antoni Birkenmajer (1855–1929) and Curtis Wilson (1921–2012) about how Copernicus’s rejection of Ptolemy’s solution to the problem of the non-uniform motions of the planets and the Moon led him to his first version of the heliocentric theory. The essay then acknowledges the speculative character of their reconstructions, the problem of anachronism in both accounts, and the mistakes that Copernicus himself made. By following their basic insights, however, readers can understand how the inconsistency in Ptolemy’s preservation of the axiom of uniform motion motivated Copernicus – first, to seek an alternative solution, and, second, to question eccentrics, which, in turn, led him to investigate epicycles. The concluding section complements their accounts, leading to an original interpretation of Copernicus’s reliance on medieval Polish developments in dialectical reasoning and on a comment in one of the books (now at Uppsala) that he annotated to develop his new vision and to construct the postulates near the beginning of Commentariolus (ca. 1510).

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Obraz Niemca w oczach Polaka, obraz Polaka w oczach Niemca. Studium nad staropolskimi traktatami kosmologicznymi przełomu XV i XVI wieku

Zbigniew Morsztyn spotyka Stephena Dedalusa

The Origin of Copernicus’s Heliocentrism Reconsidered