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šan Nedeljković i zatim Ernest Stipanić, a od savremenika Aleksandar Tomić
i Dragoslav Stoiljković. Njihovi radovi vode ka zaključku da moderna nauka
počinje ne početkom 20. veka, nego s Boškovićem, pre svega u Stoiljkovićevoj
monografiji Ruđer Bošković – utemeljivač savremene nauke, u kojoj Stoiljković
još dodaje spoznaju mogućnosti primene Boškovićevih ideja i njegovih
‘putokaza’ u rešavanju teorijskih i praktičnih problema u tehnologiji proizvodnje
polimera. Ujedno, njegova saznanja da je važno poznavati Boškovićevu
Teoriju radi mogućnosti njene primene i boljeg shvatanja dostignuća savremene
nauke predstavljaju novi pristup Boškovićevom delu.
Ključne riječi: Ruđer Bošković, atomistika, sile u prirodi, kvantna teorija, teorija relativnosti
THE CONTRIBUTION OF BOŠKOVIĆ’S NATURAL
PHILOSOPHY TO SCIENCE AS ECHOED IN THE PAPERS
AND BOOKS OF THE SCIENTISTS IN SERBIA
Since the appearance, in 1891, of Kosta Stojanović’s Atomistika (Atomism)
until the present day, more than 150 writings and works by the scientists
in Serbia have been published about Boscovich’s natural philosophy. It is
Boscovich’s Theoria which has been in their focus while following his contribution
to science – ranging from basic and dynamic atomism and the scientific
discourse from late 19 th century to the physics of elementary particles
and their mutual actions on each other, as well as the quantum theory and its
present-day reaches. Thus, when speaking on modern science, the conclusion
imposes itself that the ’detection’ and identification of Boscovich started with
the scientific thought at the dawn of science and has been going forward in
keeping with its evolution, both by way of adoption and migration of the ideas
in scientific thought and by way of analysing the analogies in the insights of
modern science wherein Boscovich’s law of forces is repeatedly recognized
and acknowledged.
Over the past 120 years, Boscovich’s Theoria has preoccupied some authors
for decades on, becoming a continual subject in dozens of their writings. Chronologically,
those by Dušan Nedeljković and, then, Ernest Stipanić stand out;
among our contemporaries, Aleksandar Tomić and Dragoslav Stoiljković are
the most prominent. Their writings lead to the conclusion that modern science
was not established at the beginning of the 20th century but originated with Boscovich,
particularly in Stoiljković’s monograph Ruđer Bošković – utemeljivač
savremene nauke (Roger Boscovich – The Founder of Contemporary Science),
in which the author adds that there is a possibility of applying Boscovich’s ideas
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