Bošković Ruđer Josip | La Caille Nicolas Louis de: Lectiones elementares opticae

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Lectiones elementares opticae

Bošković Ruđer Josip | La Caille Nicolas Louis de

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La Caille, Nicolas Louis de, Ruđer Josip Bošković: Lectiones elementares opticae ex ed. Parisina anni MDCCLVI in Latinum traductae .... : Brevis theoria micrometri obiectibi a r.p. Rogerio Josepho Boscovich.

ex libris Ivo Dubravčić

Bošković, Ruđer Josip (Dubrovnik 1711 - Milan) 1787) was one of the greatest European thinkers and scholars of his time. He excelled in philosophy, theoretical physics, mathematics, and poetry. He was a professor of mathematics, physics, and astronomy in Rome, Paris, and Milan, and a member of a large number of scientific academies and learned societies of science, and even as a philosopher he is mostly concerned with matters of nature and motion in space and time. He was a diplomat in the French service for almost 40 years. Bošković's main work is THEORIA PHILOSOPHIAE (Vienna 1758). Because of this work, Bošković is considered one of the most important physicists of all time OPTICS was written in co-authorship with the French physicist La Calle, and he was especially interested in the problem of natural light. He tried not only to find new optical constructions but also to clarify important optical concepts. In this book, Bošković laid the foundations of modern optics

La Caille, Nicolas de, French astronomer (Rumigny, 15. V. 1713 – Paris, March 21, 1762. Professor of mathematics at the Mazarin College from 1739. He determined the position of 10,000 stars for the Cape of Good Hope expeditions, which was published in the Southern starry sky (Coelum australe stelliferum, 1763) Observed the Moon, Venus and Mars and measured the parallax of the Moon and the Sun. Formed and named 14 southern constellations: Dlijeto href="https://enciklopedija.hr/natuknica.aspx?ID=31158">Chemical furnace, Sculptor, Compass, Kutnik, Microscope, Mrežica, Octant, Sisaljka, Painter, Table, Chestar, Telescope, Ura, and the old big constellation Argo was broken up by the ship into three constellations: Jedra, Kobilica and Krma. Member of the French Academy of Sciences (since 1741), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (since 1754), Society (since 1760), etc. Stars (Lacaille 8760, Lacaille 9352), a crater on the Moon (La Caille) and a planetoid (9135 Lacaille) were named after him.