Renowned Slovenian Scientist Honoured With an Anthology
An anthology about the life and work of one of the most ingenious Slovenian scientists Jurij Vega (1754-1802) was launched on Tuesday. Vega was a great man, however is not as appreciated as he should be, Bostjan Zeks, the president of the Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences, said at the book's launch in Ljubljana.
Zeks meanwhile wrote in the foreword to the anthology on the world-renown scientist, inventor, mathematician and teacher that "We must be aware that we have been - and still are - a normal and even a very successful nation throughout history and therefore the feelings of smallness or inferiority are completely unnecessary".
The anthology brings 24 contributions of scientists from Slovenia, Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Russia and the USA, which were presented at "Vega Days" conferences in 2002 and 2004, when the 250th anniversary of Vega's birth was marked.
The book entitled "Jurij baron Vega in njegov cas, Zbornik ob 250-letnici rojstva" (Jurij Baron Vega and His Times, an Anthology at the 250th Anniversary of Birth) also contains summaries in Slovenian and English, Vega's works and his correspondence with European science academies.
Vega earned praise with a manual of logarithms entitled "Thesaurus Logarithmorum Completus". The book was translated into all major European languages, saw more than one hundred editions and was in use almost until the invention of pocket calculators.
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