Programska knjižica - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

Until now that thesis has been generally ascribed to the Frech chemist
Gabriel François Venel (1750), by which he influenced the Edinburgh school
of chemistry (Joseph Black, James Hutton, John Leslie, John Thomas Romney
Robinson and others). It is more likely that three years earlier the Edinburgh
school followed in the footsteps of Bošković rather than Venel. Moreover,
Englist chemist Joseph Priestley, in the bibliography of his History of Optics
(1772), cited four books by Bošković and thus helped disseminate Bošković’s
ideas in England too.
In addition, I aim to show that in his theses on light and heat Bošković also
preceded Lavoisier’s views in the work Traité élémentaire de chimie and his
interpretation of the notion of chemical affinity. The fact that Bošković’s major
thesis in chemistry according to which the properties of matter depend on the
distribution of their elementary particles, i.e., the points of matter, will also be
discussed in the light of nineteenth-century crystallography, especially in the
interpretations of the English chemist Humphry Davy (difference between carbon
and diamond), as well as in the interpretations of his pupil Michael Faraday.
The paper will also focus on the assessment and recognition of Bošković’s
theory in Russia by Dmitry I. Mendeleyev in the nineteenth century and Bonifatij
M. Kedrov in the twentieth century.
Key words: chemistry, light, heat, phlogiston, chemical process of calcination, Ruđer
Bošković, Gabriel Venel, Joseph Priestley
TOMISLAV PETKOVIĆ
Fakultet elektrotehnike i računarstva, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Hrvatska /
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia
POJAM SILE U PETRIĆEVOJ I BOŠKOVIĆEVOJ FILOZOFIJI
PRIRODE: POVIJESNO-EPISTEMOLOŠKI PRISTUP
U potencijalu sretno odabrane teme evolucije filozofije prirode od Petrića
do Boškovića za jubilarne 20. Dane Frane Petrića u Cresu, prvo ćemo kratkim
pregledom obraditi Petrićevu fenomenološku teoriju plime i oseke razvijenu u
tri knjige Pancosmije (28., 29. i 30. knjiga), naglašavajući epistemološke doprinose
ali i ograničenja u Petrićevoj metodi i motivaciji. Frane Petrić izveo je
hijerarhiju uzrokā plime i oseke metafizičko-prirodoslovnom metodom (više
od 20 uzroka), tumačeći Mjesec i Sunce kao dva opća uzroka plime i oseke,
napose njihove nebeske položaje i utjecaj njihove svjetlosti na gibanje mora.
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