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  Dubrovnik Croatia - Tourist destination on the southern part of Adriatic Sea
It is enchanting to see the living quarters of former rectors, furnished with original Venetian workmanship, silk dresses and uniforms belonging to rectors and councilmen, as well as other artifacts of the period.
The building that was financed by Luko Bundic-Bunda, and which houses todays Marin Drzic Theatre, was opened in 1865 with the formal presentation of Verdis opera "Ernani", performed by the Italian Compagnie Theatre up until World War II.
The enormous literary wealth that bears witness to the rich history of the former republic is stored in many libraries and in the Dubrovnik State Archives.
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 Dubrovacki muzeji - Kulturno povijesni muzej
Marin Getaldic was a distinguished mathematician and physicist and an outstanding explorer.
He was born in Dubrovnik in 1568 and died in 1626.
In addition to this, Getaldic was also engaged in politics and was the envoy of the Republic in Constantinople in 1606 as well as the member of the Great and Small Council.
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 Marin Getaldic Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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Marin Getaldic - Ghetaldus (1568-1626) born in Dubrovnik, was the most outstanding Croatian scientist of his time.
Getaldic is the constructor of the parabolic mirror (diameter 2/3 m), kept today in the National Maritime Museum in London.
It is very probable that it had been constructed by Getaldic.
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 Dubrovnik Online, famous citizens of Dubrovnik - Marin Getaldic
Marin Getaldić caused real awe in his fellow- citizens with his experiments with parabolic mirrors he performed in the cave of St. James, named "Bete`s cave" after his own nickname.
During his lifetime, Marin Getaldić (1568-1626) enjoyed high esteem and glory all over Europe for his numerous scientific works.
The Dubrovnik Republic, however, preferred practical to theoretical discoveries, so Getaldić had to earn his living as a notary and public servant.
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 Marin Getaldic - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Marin Getaldic - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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 Dubrovnik, Konavle, Boka kotorska
Marin Drzic (1508-1567), who is one of the most outstanding names of the European Renaissance literature, a predecessor to Moliére's comedy and Shakespeare's drama (Moliére 1622-1673, Shakespeare 1564-1616).
It was observed long ago that Marin Drzic handled themes and motifs that appeared 50 years later in the works of Shakespeare.
One of the earliest Croatian mariners in Southampton is Blasius de Jar' from Zadar, mentioned already in 1396, while in the 15th century there are many other Croatians in Venetian galleys: from Dubrovnik, Zadar, Split, Zagreb, Kotor, Budva, Bar.
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 Dubrovnik, Konavle, Boka kotorska
Marin Drzic (1508-1567), who is one of the most outstanding names of the European Renaissance literature, a predecessor to Moliére's comedy and Shakespeare's drama (Moliére 1622-1673, Shakespeare 1564-1616).
It was observed long ago that Marin Drzic handled themes and motifs that appeared 50 years later in the works of Shakespeare.
One of the earliest Croatian mariners in Southampton is Blasius de Jar' from Zadar, mentioned already in 1396, while in the 15th century there are many other Croatians in Venetian galleys: from Dubrovnik, Zadar, Split, Zagreb, Kotor, Budva, Bar.
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Marin Drzic (1508-1567): writer; chronicler of the Dubrovnik Republic; one of the biggest authors of comedies in Renaissance (predecessor of Moliere).
Marin Getaldic (Marin Ghetaldus) (1566-1606): mathematician; famous for his use of algebra in geometrics and a pioneer in development of conic lenses.
Marin (4th century): stonemason from the Island of Rab; founder of San Marino, the first republic in europe.
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 RootsWeb: CROATIA-L [CROATIA-L] Adam Eterovich and some research
Marin Drzic (1508-1567): writer; chronicler of the Dubrovnik Republic;
Marin Getaldic (Marin Ghetaldus) (1566-1606): mathematician; famous for
Marin (4th century): stonemason from the Island of Rab; founder of San
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Being one of the most enlightened cultural, artistic and commercial centres in its time, it produced many famous people.
These include well-known comedy playwright and poet Marin Drzic, who wrote the play "Dundo Maroje".
Marin Getaldic (Getaldus) is another famous citizen of Dubrovnik, the physicist and mathematician – his famous parabolic mirror is today kept in the Maritime Museum in Greenwich.
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 Taxi and Transportation Service Dubrovnik
The magnificent figure of the comedy playwright and poet Marin Drzic eclipses such significant personalities as the poet M. Vetranovic and the comedy playwright N. Naljeskovic.
Even so, the consciousness of the unity of the cultural environment survived, and the literature of Dubrovnik, achieving, at its best, a literary merit of European significance, preserved a continuity of literary expression in the Croatian language.
Another famous citizen of Dubrovnik is Marin Getaldic (Getaldus), the physicist and mathematician.
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 History of Croatian Science
Marin Getaldic - Ghetaldus (1568-1622) born in Dubrovnik, was the most outstanding Croatian scientist of his time.
Marin Getaldic, a portrait kept in Rector's Palace in Dubrovnik
Marin Soljacic is the author of the new Wireless Power Transfer, conceived in 1996.
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Supported by its wealth and skilled diplomacy, the Latin/Slavic Ragusa/Dubrovnik achieved a remarkable level of development during the 15th and 16th century.
Dubrovnik was one of the centers of the development of the Croatian language and literature, home of numerous poets and playwrights such as Ivan Gundulic and Marin Držic.
Notable were also the painters Lovro and Vicko Dobricevic, not to mention scientists such as Ruder Josip Boškovic and Marin Getaldic.
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Water from the water main (taps on the quay), fuel (diesel oil) on the N bank, 25 m downstream from the bridge.
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 Basic Thinking Blog » Wireless Strom: a beautiful mind?
Recharging your laptop computer — and also your cell phone and a variety of other gadgets — might one day be doable in the same convenient way many people now surf the Web: wirelessly.
Marin Soljacic of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will present research by himself and his colleagues Aristeidis Karalis and John Joannopoulos on the physics of electromagnetic fields, showing how wireless energy could power future gadgets.
The MIT team is also working on demonstrating the technology in practice.
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Trogir is an excellent example of a medieval town built on and conforming with the layout of a Hellenistic and Roman city and it is therefore also on the World Cultural Heritage list of UNESCO.
- That, before Newton's discovery, the town of Dubrovnik, which has been on the World Cultural Heritage list of UNESCO since 1979, owned a telescope which was constructed by Marin Getaldic (1568-1626), the greatest Croatian scientist of that time.
- That the founder of San Marino, a small independent republic in the northeast of Italy, was the sculptor Marin from the village Lopar from the island of Rab.
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 HIC - Works of Croatian Latinists
The mathematician and physicist Marin Getaldic (1566-1626) of Dubrovnik lived the peripatetic life of a scholar.
Getaldic wrote in Latin and his works were widely known.
Another polyhistor from Dubrovnik, Stjepan Gradic (1613-1683), during his stay in Rome (1642-83), moved in the political and scholarly circles of Pope Alexander VII and Queen Christina of Sweden.
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Among his numerous books let us mention Promotus Archimedus (Rome, 1603) and De resolutione et compositione mathematica (Rome, 1630), in which Getaldic appears as a pioneer of algebraization of geometry.
Getaldic is the constructor of the parabolic mirror (diameter 2/3 m), kept today in the National Maritime Museum in London.
Antun Lucic, known as Anthony F. Lucas (F. is after his father Franjo, mariner and shipbuilder from the island of Hvar) believed that the nearby Spindletop hill, near the town of Beaumont, covered a vast pool of oil.
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 Dubrovnik - Neretva County - Dalmatia Croatia
On certain sites, these summer houses were built in spectacular rows, like in Rijeka Dubrovacka, on the island of Sipan, in Konavle.
Many different sovereign and marine powers touched and clashed in this area throughout its turbulent history: Byzantium, the Saracens, Croatia, Normandy, Venice, some small kingdoms and principalities, then the Hungro - Croatian state and through it the Roman - German empire, the Ottoman empire, Habsburgs and Napoleons empire.
They are renowned in all areas of science, art and culture: the writers Marin Drzic and Ivan Gundulic, doctors Didak Pir and Djuro Baljivi, mathematician Marin Getaldic, economist Beno Kotruljevic, sailor Miho Pracat, philosopher Nikola Gucetic, painters Nikola Bozidarevic and Lovro Dobricevic, theologians the Dominican monk Ivan Stojkovic and the Franciscan Juraj Dragisic.
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 Croatia
DRZIC, MARIN (1508-1567.) writer; chronicler of Dubrovnik Republic, one of the greatest comedians of the Renaissance (predecessor of Moliere)
GETALDIC, MARIN GHETALDUS (1566-1606.) mathematician; he used algebra in geometric; pioneer in making of conic lenses
LUPIS, IVAN (1813-1875.) nautical officer from Rijeka; inventor of the torpedo, which was manufactured for the first time in Whitehead's factory in Rijeka in 1866 MARIN (4th century) stonecutter from the island of Rab; founded Republic of San Marino, the first republic in Europe
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 Croatian Scientist
Soon he was appointed by Louis XV to a very prestigious position and became the Director of Naval Optics of the French Navy in Paris (Optique Militaire de la Marine Royale de France).
It was severely damaged in the aggression in 1991/92 (shelled by the Serbian Army - 37 direct hits).
Antun Lucic, known as Anthony F. Lucas (F. = Francis is after his father Franjo, mariner and shipbuilder from the island of Hvar) believed that the nearby Spindletop hill, near the town of Beaumont, covered a vast pool of oil.
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 Taxi and Transportation Service Dubrovnik
The magnificent figure of the comedy playwright and poet Marin Drzic eclipses such significant personalities as the poet M. Vetranovic and the comedy playwright N. Naljeskovic.
Even so, the consciousness of the unity of the cultural environment survived, and the literature of Dubrovnik, achieving, at its best, a literary merit of European significance, preserved a continuity of literary expression in the Croatian language.
Another famous citizen of Dubrovnik is Marin Getaldic (Getaldus), the physicist and mathematician.
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 History of Croatian Science
He is buried in the Torquato Tasso tomb in the church of St Onofrius in Rome.
Marin Getaldic - Ghetaldus (1568-1626) born in Dubrovnik, was the most outstanding Croatian scientist of his time.
According to a letter of an Italian scientist Buratini we know that the city of Dubrovnik possessed a telescope before Newton's discovery.
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 Luke's Marin Mersenne Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A series of five articles on Doctor Robert Fludd (1574-1637) By Sharon M.W. "A French scientist and author named Marin Mersenne accused Fludd of being a magician, an atheist and heretic." Articles 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
(3 August 1996) The name of Marin Mersenne.
The correct pronunciation of Marin was a surprise to me.
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Address: DAB-093 BEAUTIFUL CASTLE OF PRINCE GETALDIC NEAR DUBROVNIK Type: Residential Style: 4-Level Split "Old Stone Castle" Bedrooms: n/a "12-15 bedrooms" Garage: n/a "Private parking place" Size: 900 sq.
Beautiful castle of Prince Marin Getaldic, famous physicist and mathematician from the 16th century and personal friend of Galileo Galilei.
It was the 17th residence of the Prince and is located in the Zupa Dubrovacka, only 8 km from Dubrovnik and 2 km from the sea.
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 DUBROVNIK
There is also a significant contribution to the theatre and dramatic play: in the 16th c.
lived the poet of mysteries Mavro Vetranovic-Cavcic, the author of comedies and car­nival farces Nikola Naljeskovic and one of the greatest Renaissance comedy playwrights, Marin Drizic.
Ivan Gundulic writes his gentle pastoral play "Dubravka".
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The host city of Dubrovnik, situated on the southern Adriatic coast, was an important connection between the East and the West through the centuries.
The fame of the city as a cradle of culture was spread by its prominent citizens like Rudjer Boskovic and Marin Getaldic in science, Marin Drzic and Ivan Gundulic in literature and Luka Sorkocevic in music.
Well known is the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, held since 1950, where the open air drama, opera, dance and concert performances are presented in natural open air historic locations.
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 www.dalmacija.net - Dalmatia ::: General Information / Croatian History
GETALDIC, MARIN GHETALDUS (1566 - 1606) mathematician; known for the application of algebra in geometrz and also a pioneer in the making of conic lenses
LUPIS, IVAN (1813 - 1875) nautical officer from Rijeka; inventor of the torpedo, which was manufactured for the forst time in Whitehead's factory in Rijeka in 1866
MARIN (4th century) stone-cutter from the island of Rab, founded San Marino, the first republic in Europe
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