Website of the Society for the History of Sciences and Technology and its Journal
July 25–31, 2021, Prague
Deadline for submission of symposia proposals (including all individual abstracts within symposia): April 30, 2020
August 5–10, 2019, Prague
Brno, Masaryk University, 13—16 June 2019
8—9 March 2018, Prague
Mathematicians and scientists as public figures: Living in Ivory Towers?
4—7 January 2018, Telč, Czechia
4—7 October 2017, Masaryk University in Brno
RNDr. Luboš NOVÝ, DrSc.
Born 13. 11. 1929 in Prague – died 6. 1. 2017 in Prague
Luboš Nový defended his dissertation about The Bolzano Logic in 1953 after his studies of mathematics and physics at Charles University in Prague. In 1956 he became head of the Department of Science and Technology of a newly founded Historical Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, and he gained the title Doctor of Historical Sciences in 1977. In the years 1985–1990 he was appointed director of the Central Archives of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He was also long-time chairman of the Czechoslovak Society for the History of Sciences and Technology, and editor-in-chief of its journal History of Sciences and Technology (Dějiny věd a techniky).
Cover:
500 years since the publication of Francis Bacon‘s Novum Organum
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
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
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
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
