THE LEGACY OF EXACT SCIENCES IN THE CLEMENTINUM AND SECOND LIFE OF THE "MUSAEUM MATHEMATICUM" IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY
2018
Abstract
Activities of the Society of Jesus in the Clementinum had ended with the dissolution of the Order in 1773, where- upon the Clementinum became a secular building. Save for a few exceptions, data gathered by the Jesuits did not survive.
In the nineteenth and twentieth century, historians of science therefore had to rely on the study of extant instruments and on publications that had appeared in print. The aim of this contribution is to describe the contri- bution of earlier historians of science, such as Josef Smolík, Quido Vetter, Otto Seydl, and Zdeněk Horský, to our knowledge of scientific activities in the Clementinum.