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Bohemia Docta. The Historical Roots of Science and Scholarship in the Czech Lands
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SYSNO ASEP 0499452 Document Type B - Monograph R&D Document Type The record was not marked in the RIV Title Bohemia Docta. The Historical Roots of Science and Scholarship in the Czech Lands Author(s) Míšková, Alena (MSUA-W ed.) SAI, RID
Franc, Martin (MSUA-W ed.) SAI, SAI, RID, ORCID
Kostlán, Antonín (USD-C ed.)Issue data Praha: Academia, 2018 ISBN 978-80-200-2639-2 Series Historie Number of pages 578 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country CZ - Czech Republic Keywords science and society ; history of sciences ; 16th-20th centuries Subject RIV AB - History OECD category History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings) Institutional support USD-C - RVO:68378114 ; MSUA-W - RVO:67985921 Annotation 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. Workplace Institute for Contemporary History Contact Gabriela Golasová, golasova@usd.cas.cz, Tel.: 257 286 365 Year of Publishing 2019
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