Bohemia Docta. The Historical Roots of Science and Scholarship in the Czech Lands

0499452 - ÚSD 2019 CZ eng B - Monography
Míšková, Alena (ed.) - Franc, Martin (ed.) - Kostlán, Antonín (ed.)
Bohemia Docta. The Historical Roots of Science and Scholarship in the Czech Lands.
Praha: Academia, 2018. 578 s. Historie. ISBN 978-80-200-2639-2
Institutional support: RVO:68378114 ; RVO:67985921
Keywords : science and society * history of sciences * 16th-20th centuries
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

The book as the first describes general development of Czech (Bohemian) science beside universities from the beginnings in scholarly associations to transformation of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences to the Czech Academy of Sciences (1993). Authors were aimed at the history of important scientific institutions such as the Royal Bohemian Learned Society, the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts, Masaryk Academy of Labour or the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (est. 1952) that dominated post-war period. One of chapters is also devoted to German scientific institutions in Czech lands, another one to scholars and scientists in exile and their organizations. Biographical profiles of personalities, who influenced Czech science the most considerably in the past, are an integral part of the book, as well as cross-sectional chapters devoted to development of science in 16th-20th centuries.
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