Jan Brożek or Johannes Broscius (November 1585 – 21 November 1652) was the most prominent Polish mathematician of his era and an early biographer of Copernicus...
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cells. Known in geometry as the honeycomb conjecture, this was given by Jan Brożek and mathematically proven much later by Thomas Hales. Thus, a hexagonal...
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Commonwealth Wanda Dobrowolska (1937). "Jan Karol Chodkiewicz". Polski Słownik Biograficzny, T. 3: Brożek Jan – Chwalczewski Franciszek (in Polish). Kraków:...
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2021. Konopczyński, Władysław (1937). "Jan Karol Chodkiewicz". Polski Słownik Biograficzny, T. 3: Brożek Jan – Chwalczewski Franciszek (in Polish). Kraków:...
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Szlachciński (1511/1512–1600), scholar, translator, poet and philosopher Jan Brożek (1585–1652), mathematician, physician and astronomer Adam Bełcikowski...
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Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (born 1597) November 21 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician and astronomer (born 1585) Connolly,...
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Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish polymath (died 1629) November 1 – Jan Brożek, Polish polymath (died 1652) March 10 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician...
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further perfect numbers (which are very rare). In 1652 the Polish polymath Jan Brożek noted that there was no perfect number between 104 and 107. Despite over...
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(1877–1961) – priest, archaeologist, anthropologist, ethnologist and geologist Jan Brożek (1585–1652) – Polish canon, polymath, mathematician, astronomer, and physician;...
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1638) October – John Ball, English puritan divine (d. 1640) November 1 Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician and astronomer (d. 1652) Adriaan Pauw...
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mathematical achievements. According to a later but credible tradition (Jan Brożek), Copernicus was a pupil of Albert Brudzewski, who by then (from 1491)...
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attributed to Pappus of Alexandria (c. 290 – c. 350). In the 17th century, Jan Brożek used a similar theorem to argue why bees create hexagonal honeycombs....
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Cała Marek Jan Chodakiewicz Piotr Cywiński Tadeusz Czacki Norman Davies, British-Polish historian Małgorzata Dąbrowska, historian, Byzantist Jan Długosz...
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Lithuania Ludza, Latvia Kamin-Kashyrskyi, Ukraine Petah Tikva, Israel Jan Brożek Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski August Aleksander Czartoryski Konstanty Adam...
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cartographer; Michael Sendivogius (1566–1636), alchemist and chemist; Jan Brożek (Ioannes Broscius in Latin) (1585–1652), polymath: a mathematician, physician...
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translation of Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered. Tęczyński was a patron of Jan Brożek, professor at the Kraków Academy. Tęczyński himself was also a writer...
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1st Count of Gondomar, Spanish academic and diplomat (d. 1626) 1585 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d. 1652) 1596 – Pietro...
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Under the circumstances many elected to pursue their studies abroad. Jan Brożek, a rector of the Kraków University, was a multidisciplinary scholar who...
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English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire (b. 1583) 1652 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585) 1695 – Henry...
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Spanish poet admired by his contemporary, Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Jan Brożek (Broscius, 1585–1652), Polish mathematician, astronomer, physician, poet...
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1638) October – John Ball, English puritan divine (d. 1640) November 1 Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician and astronomer (d. 1652) Adriaan Pauw...
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November 11 – John Bridgeman, British bishop (b. 1577) November 21 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585) December 11...
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from Kurzelów (Stanisław Jakobczyk, Jan Muscenius and Jan Brożek) were supporters of the Copernicus theory. Jan Brożek was Copernicus' first biographer....
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observatory in his house; he is known as "the founder of lunar topography". Jan Brożek (Ioannes Broscius) was the most prominent 17th-century Polish mathematician...
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Jadacki, and Jan Woleński, eds., Tradition of the Lvov-Warsaw School. Ideas and Continuations, Leiden, Boston, 2015. Brożek, A., F. Stadler, and Jan Woleński...
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the interest taken by Polish scholars of that time and in particular Jan Brożek (1585-1652), who listed this globe among his belongings in the inventory...
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BnF 16007839x GND 139273158 GND 119268663 O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Jan Łukasiewicz", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews...
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November 11 – John Bridgeman, British bishop (b. 1577) November 21 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585) December 11...
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1543 – 1614), writer; historiographer; translator; poet; genealogist Jan Brożek (1585 –1652), mathematician, astronomer, physician, poet, writer, musician...
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In 1990, after the Velvet Revolution, Jaroslav Brožek was rehabilitated, and returned to teach at the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem...
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