Ivka Kljajić

Miljenko Lapaine

Kljajić, Ivka

Lapaine, Miljenko

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    Anniversaries                                                                                                                                                                    KiG 2002,1164Faustus Verantius450 Anniversary of His BirthFaust VRANČIĆ (Faustus Verantius) was born in1551 in ibenik and died in 1617 in Venice. Hegained his first education in humanities in Pozsnoy(Bratislava) and in 1568 started to study philosophyand law in Padua, where he stayed until the middle of1572. He may have spent the following years in Italy,though there is scarce information on this period ofhis life. In 1575 he was admitted into the Croatianbrotherhood of St Jerome in Rome. In 1579 he wasappointed administrator of bishops estates inVeszprem where he stayed until 1581 when heaccepted the post of a secretary to king Rudolph II inPrague, where he studied sciences, mathematics andtechnical sciences. In 1594 he left the post and until1598 lived in Dalmatia and Italy, in particular inVenice, where in 1595 he published his famousdictionary Dictionarium quinque nobilissimarumEuropae linguarum, Latinae, Italicae, Germanicae,Dalmaticae et Ungaricae (A Dictionary of the FiveNoblest European Languages, Latin, Italian, German,Croatian and Hungarian). The dictionary, containing5000 words of each language, is the first dictionaryof the Croatian language and has a particularsignificance for mathematical and scientificterminology. Though Rudolph II appointed himtitular bishop of Csanad, he performed the duties ofroyal adviser for Hungary and Transylvania. In 1605he left the Court and entered the order of St. Paul inRome. In 1606 he published the work ivot nekolikoizabranih divic (Lives of Selected Virgins) inCroatian translation. Returning to Rome he becameengaged in philosophy, in particular in logic. In 1608in Venice he published Logica suis ipsiusinstrumentis formata and in 1610 in Rome Ethicachristiana, under the pseudonym Justus VeraxSicenus. The revised edition of these two works titledLogica hova suis ipsius instrumentis formata etrecognita Ethica christiana was published in 1616 inVenice under the authors real name. His return toRome had a significant influence on his furtherresearch of technical problems. His major workMachinae novae Fausti Verantii Siceni cumdeclaratione Latina, Italica, Hispanica, Gallica etGermanica, published at the end of 1615 or at thebeginning of 1616 in Venice, was gradually cominginto being as a result of his research into theconstruction of machines and architectural problems.This work contains 49 sketches and projects inetching presenting 56 diverse machines and technicalconstructions, accompanied with commentaries anddescriptions in Latin, Italian, Spanish, French andGerman. Though not all of these projects were new,many of them were originally invented by Vrančićand brought about a considerable enrichment oftechnical forms. In Rome he was engaged in a searchfor a solution to various practical hydrologicalproblems, such as the problem of frequent outflowsof the river Tiber and improvement of fountains inVenice. In order to be able to suggest steps to betaken in order to evade the outflows of the Tiber,Vrančić investigated the causes of their appearance.His proposition of the solution to this problem ispresented as the map Vrbis Romae Dilvvivm (OnRoman Water Flows) in his Machinae novae. Areprint of Machinae novae was published in Zagrebin 1993.Ivka Kljajić, Miljenko LapaineObljetnice                                                                                                                                                                              KiG 2002,1165Faust Vrančić450. obljetnica rođenjaFaust VRANČIĆ (Faustus Verantius), polihistor,konstruktor, pisac i leksikograf rođen je 1551. god. uibeniku, a umro 1617. u Veneciji. U Pounu jestekao početnu humanističku izobrazbu. Godine1568. otiao je na studij filozofije i prava u Padovu,gdje je ostao do sredine 1572. Iduće su godinenjegova ivota slabo poznate, ali je vjerojatno tihgodina boravio u Italiji. U članstvo hrvatskebratovtine sv. Jeronima u Rimu primljen je 1575.Godine 1579. imenovan je upraviteljem biskupskihdobara u Veszprému, gdje je ostao do 1581., kada jeprihvatio mjesto tajnika kralja Rudolfa II. u Pragu;ondje je proučavao prirodne znanosti, matematiku itehniku. Godine 1594. napustio je mjesto tajnika, paje sve do 1598. ivio u Dalmaciji i Italiji, posebno uVeneciji, gdje je 1595. objavio svoj poznati rječnikDictionarium quinque nobilissimarum Europaelinguarum, Latinae, Italicae, Germanicae,Dalmaticae et Ungaricae (Rječnik pet najuglednijiheuropskih jezika, latinskoga, talijanskoga,njemačkoga, hrvatskoga i madarskoga). To je prvirječnik hrvatskog jezika, pa ima osobito značenje i zamatematičko i prirodoznanstveno nazivlje. Sadrioko 5000 riječi svakog jezika. Godine 1598. RudolfII. imenovao ga je titularnim čanadskim biskupom,ali je obavljao dunost kraljeva savjetnika zaMadarsku i Transilvaniju. God. 1605. napustio jedvor i uao u red sv. Paula, tzv. barnabita u Rimu. Uprijevodu na hrvatski jezik objavio je 1606. djeloivot nikoliko izabranih divic. Po povratku u Rimposvetio se i filozofskim razmiljanjima, osobitologici. Tako je 1608. objavio u Veneciji svoje djeloLogica suis ipsius instrumentis formata, a 1610. uRimu djelo Ethica christiana, na kojima je autoraoznačio pseudonimom Justus Verax Sicenus.Prerađeno izdanje tih dvaju djela pod naslovomLogica hova suis ipsius instrumentis formata etrecognita. Ethica christiana objavio je 1616. uVeneciji pod pravim imenom. Povratak u Rim imaoje veliku vanost za njegova daljnja istraivanjatehničkih problema. Kao rezultat svih zanimanja iistraivanja o konstrukcijama strojeva i rjeavanjimaarhitektonskih problema postupno je nastajalonjegovo glavno djelo Machinae novae FaustiVerantii Siceni cum declaratione Latina, Italica,Hispanica, Gallica et Germanica, koje je tiskanokrajem 1615. ili početkom 1616. u Veneciji. U tom jedjelu prikazao 49 skica i projekata u bakropisu. Nanjima je donio 56 različitih uređaja i tehničkihkonstrukcija, koje je opisao u komentarima nalatinskom, talijanskom, panjolskom, francuskom injemačkom jeziku. Svi ti projekti nisu bili novi, alisu mnogi od njih bili izvorno Vrančićevi i značili suveliko obogaćenje tehničkih oblika. U Rimu jerjeavao razne praktične hidroloke probleme, međukojima treba istaknuti problem čestih poplava rijekeTiber u tom gradu i usavravanje fontana u Veneciji.Kako bi dao prijedlog kako izbjeći poplave Tibera,Vrančić je traio uzroke tih poplava. Svoj prijedlogza rjeenje tog problema dao je kao kartografskiprikaz (projekt 1.) pod naslovom Vrbis RomaeDilvvivm (O rimskim vodenim tokovima) u djeluMachinae novae. Pretisak djela Machinae novaeobjavljen je u Zagrebu 1993. god.Ivka Kljajić, Miljenko Lapaine    Anniversaries                                                                                                                                                                    KiG 2002,1166Map Vrbis Romae Dilvvivm by Faust VrančićObljetnice                                                                                                                                                                              KiG 2002,1167Karta Vrbis Romae Dilvvivm (O rimskim vodenim tokovima) Fausta Vrančića

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