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Brass sundial with compass H45 - Urania propitia
€134.36
H45 - Urania prioprita - brass compass with sundial. Height 2.8 cm, d. 8.4cm. Renaissance style. Compass dedicated to the memory of Maria Cunitz and the first woman - astronomer, creator of the work Urania propitia - accessible astronomy. Maria Kunic (Cunitz, Cunitia) is an astronomer born in the 17th century in Wołów in Lower Silesia. Her greatest work is Urania propitia, in which she solved the "Kepler problem" and placed the ephemeris of the Venus phases. She had a husband, Elijah, with whom she conducted astronomical research. She corresponded with such scholars as Jan Heweliusz and Johann Albrecht Portner. A monument was erected in her honor in Świdnica, a school and a street were named after her, and her 400th birthday was celebrated. Maria Kunic is the most famous woman - astronomer, born at the beginning of the 17th century in Wołów, a town near Wrocław. Hardly anyone knows this noble figure, despite the fact that he was one of the strongest minds of his generation and left a considerable scientific output. As a child, she lived in the Świdnik market square in the house "Under the Golden Boy", in front of which there is still a bench with a sculpture depicting Maria holding her most famous work, Urania propitia, which simply means "accessible astronomy". The work was published in two languages: German and Latin, and divided into 23 chapters. It has 500 pages. In it, Maria Kunic re-edited Kepler's astronomical tables, corrected them, made additions and simplified them using a method that omits logarithms. There is also a novelty in this work, namely the ephemeris of the Venus phases. Silesian Athena, as Maria Kunic was called, during her scientific activity, she and her husband corresponded with such scientists as Jan Heweliusz or Ismaël Boulliau. She also corresponded with Johann Albrecht Portner of Regensburg and with Pierre Desnoyers, the secretary of the Queen of Poland, but her letters have not yet been fully investigated and perhaps there is still a lot to be discovered in this matter. Maria Kunic was born around 1610 in Wołów and died in 1664 in Byczyna (Pitschen).
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