Title:

Syruć or Chróścikowski? : around the issue of the first Polish authorof the publication on the differential and integral calculus

Subtitle:

Analecta: Studies and Materials for the History of Science

Creator:

Rodzeń, Jacek.

Institutional creator:

Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Publisher:

Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2021

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

mathematics - history - Poland 18th c. ; differential calculus ; integral calculus ; Piarist Order ; Bernard Syruć ; Samuel Chróścikowski

Abstract:

In the Polish historiography of mathematics Piarist Bernard Syruć(Siruć) is unanimously considered as the fi rst Polish author of work on differentialand integral calculus (Propositiones ex Analysi Infi nitorum, Romae 1755). However,in the same year the works of two other authors: another Piarist Samuel Chróścikowskiand one Pasquale de Petra were published in Rome. These works had thesame title and, what is particularly astonishing, their content was exactly identicalwith that of the previously mentioned work of Syruć. The article tries to clarify thispuzzling issue. It is suggested that the works of Syruć, Chróścikowski and Pasqualede Petra could have been a result of some public examination involving many graduates.In the eighteenth century, public examinations carried out in the religiouscolleges, were common form of demonstrating acquired knowledge and skills.

Relation:

Analecta : studia i materiały z dziejów nauki polskiej

Volume:

30 (2021)

Issue:

1

Start page:

29

End page:

40

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

pdf

Resource Identifier:

1230-1159

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, full text available at:

Original in:

Library of the Institute for the History of Science PAS

Access:

Open