Jan Åšniadecki

January Śniadecki ( born August 29, 1756 in Żnin, Poland, † November 9, 1830 in Jasiunai in Vilnius), brother of the chemist Jędrzej Śniadecki, was a Polish mathematician and astronomer.

Śniadecki studied after attending school in Trzemeszno at the Lubrański Academy and at the University of Krakow mathematics and physics and was formed from 1778 to 1781 abroad on, among other things, in Paris. Later he became professor of mathematics at Cracow, 1803 in Vilnius. From 1807 to 1815 he was rector of the University of Vilnius. In 1815 he went into retirement.

Besides astronomical and mathematical treatises written Śniadecki a Spherical Trigonometry (1807; German by Feldt, Leipzig 1828). In philosophy, he joined the British empiricism, against the German philosophy, and especially against Kant His Rectorate speeches, several biographies, for example via Nicolaus Copernicus and Hugo Kołłątaj, show him as a strict purists and opponents of any romance.

In his honor, the asteroid ( 1262 ) Sniadeckia was named after him.

Works

  • " Rachunku algebraicznego teoria " (1783 )
  • " Geografia, czyli opisanie matematyczne i fizyczne ziemi " (1804 )
  • " O Koperniku " ( About Nicolaus Copernicus, Biography, 1802) " Discours sur Nicolas Copernic ', 1818
  • " Discours sur Nicolas Copernicus ", 1820 [ Jean Sniadecki ].
  • " Di Niccolò Copernico ", 1830
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