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ORGANON


Numéro 41
2009

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COMITÉ DE DIRECTION:

Juliusz Domański (Varsovie, Pologne), Roman Duda (Wrocław, Pologne),
Janusz Goćkowski (Wrocław, Pologne),
John Micgiel (New York, U. S. A.), Lech Szczucki (Varsovie, Pologne),
Piotr Wandycz (Yale, U. S. A.), Jerzy Wyrozumski (Cracovie, Pologne)


Rédacteur: Andrzej Biernacki


Secrétaire de rédaction: Robert Zaborowski
e-mail: thymos2001@yahoo.fr


Le présent numéro de l'"Organon" est subventionné par
l'Association des Auteurs ZAIKS
la Kasa im. J. Mianowskiego-Fonds "Drogomir"


ISSN 0078-6500

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TABLE DES MATIERES

PHILOSOPHIE

Jacques Bouveresse (Paris, France)–Jules Vuillemin (1920–2001) 5
Izydora Dąmbska – Conventionalism vs. Relativism [1938]9
Jan Woleński (Cracow, Poland) – On Izydora Dąmbska and Her Philosophy17
Jerzy Pluta (Warsaw, Poland) – Problem of Explanatory Circularity in Leśniewski’s Systems25

ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR

Henri Meloni (Paris, France) – L’autonomie des universités: le cas de la France31
Nutsa (Magda) Kobakhidze (New York, U. S. A.) – Education versus Military Expenditures in the Baltic States41
Julianna Connelly (New York, U. S. A.) – Hungary, Slovakia, and Romania: International Relations Examined through Minority Language Education51

VARIA

Jean–Claude Picot (Longpont sur Orge, France) – Water and Bronze in the Hands of Empedocles’ Muse59
Lucyna Kostuch (Kielce, Poland) – The Transformation of the Phalanx and the Military Functions of Greek Divinities85
Janusz Tazbir (Warschau, Polen) – Polnische Aufblähung angesichts der nationalen Assimilationsprozesse93
Piotr Daszkiewicz (Paris, France) – L’expédition zoologique polonaise en Algerie d’après la correspondance de Wladyslaw Taczanowski à Konstanty Jelski109
Bolesław Orłowski (Warsaw, Poland) – Polish Inventions: A Forgotten Contribution to The Allied Victory in World War II121
Jan Tomkowski (Varsovie, Pologne) – Piotr Daszkiewicz (Paris, France) – Wacław Berent (1873–1940) – l’artiste et le naturaliste129

“THE PROBLEM OF CONTINUITY AND DISCONTINUITY OF ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE: A REAPPRAISAL” (TEN PAPERS PRESENTED DURING THE 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, VIENNA, SEPTEMBER 10–12, 2008)

Introduction by M. Kokowski137
Robert Podkoński (Łódź, Poland) – A Charm of Puzzles. The Fate of Richard Kilvington’s Philosophical Ideas139
Elżbieta Jung (Łódź, Poland) – The Fourteenth and Seventeenth Century Project of Mathematical Physics. Continuity or Discontinuity?151
Raffaele Pisano (Rome, Italy) – Continuity and Discontinuity. On Method in Leonardo da Vinci’ Mechanics165
Fabio Zanin (Padova, Italy) – From Common Sensibles to Primary Properties. Rethinking Galilei’s Famous Distinction in Il Saggiatore183
Thomás A. S. Haddad (University of São Paulo, Brazil) – Christoph Clavius, S. J. on the Reality of Ptolemaic Cosmology: Ex Suppositione Reasoning and the Problem of (Dis)Continuity of Early Modern Natural Philosophy195
Arun Bala (Singapore, Singapore) – The Dialogical Roots of the Copernican Revolution: Implications for the Continuity Thesis205
Maria Teresa Borgato (Ferrara, Italy) – Continuity and Discontinuity in Italian Mathematics after the Unification: From Brioschi to Peano219
Isabel Serra (Lisbon, Portugal) – Francisca Viegas (Lisbon, Portugal) – Elisa Maia (Lisbon, Portugal)–Electron – A Main Actor in Scientific Controversies233
Raffaele Pisano (Rome, Italy) – Ilaria Gaudiello (Bologna, Italy)–Continuity and Discontinuity in the History of Science. An Epistemological Inquiry through the Categories245
Michal Kokowski (Cracow, Poland) – The Problem of Continuity and Discontinuity in the Development of Science from Ancient Times to the Present: A Reappraisal 267