This article presents the procedure for determining numerical scales based on the graphic scales drawn to process the graphic material in Volume VII of the Valvasor collection. To calculate the ...numerical scales, the miles drawn on the maps and their lengths in relation to one degree of the meridian were studied. A total of 22 different miles were drawn on the maps studied, of which the German mile was the most common. After calculating the numerical scales, it was found that the largest scale of the maps examined was 1:220,000 and the smallest was 1:11,200,000.
Janez Vajkard Valvasor je svoje uradno šolanje opravil v Ljubljani. Kmalu po zaključenem pouku je mladi Valvasor skupaj z že uveljavljenim kemikom Joannesom de Monte Snydersom eksperimentiral na ...Dunaju. V naslednjih letih je nadgradil svoje poznavanje kemijskih lastnosti kovin za izdelavo tankostenskega kipa ob Dolenjski cesti v Ljubljani iz posebej v ta namen izumljene zlitine podobne tistim, ki so jih Japonci uporabljali za svoje zvonove. Iz svojih knjig in potovanj je zvedel podrobnosti o tedanjih japonskih zlitinah s katerimi si je pomagal pri lastnem postopku vlivanja kipa. Valvasor je v Ljubljani končal le nižje študije, saj so visokošolski pouk razvili komaj desetletje po njegovi smrti. Kdo so bili njegovi učitelji kemije, morebiti celo alkimije, in kje so Valvasorjevi profesorji pridobili potrebna znanja? Na voljo je pravzaprav le ena sama zanesljiva notica o njegovem ljubljanskem študiju datirana 15. 8. 1659, vendar je tudi iz nje mogoče spoznati učitelje, ki so ga utegnili navdušiti s svojim poznavanjem strukture snovi. Abstract Valvasor’s Contributions to Chemical Technology The Polymath Joannes Weikhard Valvasor (* 1641) conducted all his formal training in Ljubljana. Shortly after completing his schooling the young Valvasor experimented with the established chemist Joannes de Monte Snyders in Vienna. In the following years Valvasor developed his knowledge of the chemical properties of metals for the manufacture of thin-walled statue at Dolenjska Street in Ljubljana. He used the specially designed alloy similar to those endorsed by the Japanese for their bells. From his books and travels Valvasor learned the details of the Japanese alloys and used the data for his own process. According to the only available note about studies in Ljubljana College on August 15, 1659 Valvasor passed from the lower Latin Mary’s congregation to the higher Latin Mary’s congregation which means that he just finished the study of Syntax (higher Grammar) and was about to began his studies of poetics. He probably enrolled as the student-beginner in 1655/56 and graduated as the student of rhetoric in 1660/61. In this paper we will name Janez Vajkard Valvasor’s teachers of chemistry in his teenage years. Valvasor eventually finished just few years of his lower studies because as impetuous young man he decided not to continue his studies in any of the higher education institutions available outside Ljubljana. The leaders of Ljubljana lower courses who enabled and supported the work Valvasor’s formal teachers will be focused. The other important locals who helped Valvasor’s formal teachers to manage his teenage aspirations will be described. And last, but not least, the professor of Valvasor’s teachers will be named. Keywords: Johan Weikhard Valvasor, Athanasius Kircher, Joannes de Monte Snyders, History of Chemistry, History of Schools, chemisemiotics.
The emblematic book of fables De warachtighe fabulen der dieren, with etchings by Marcus Gheeraerts (Brugge, 1567), was translated into several languages and the illustrations were copied time and ...again. An original reinterpretation of Gheeraerts’s etchings has recently been discovered in two publications by Johann Weichard Valvasor (1641-1693), the great patron of the arts, who established the first printmaking workshop in the Duchy of Carniola. The engravings in the Dominicae Passionis Icones (1679) and Theatrum mortis humanae tripartitum (1682) produced in Valvasor’s workshop at Bogenšperk Castle are embellished by original decorative borders, designed by Valvasor’s master engraver Andreas Trost. Until recently the borders were considered to be of purely ornamental character, although among the skillfully rendered miniature plants and animals there are quite a number of beasts that form a distinctive narrative scene. Analysis of the animal scenes shows that many of them represent a characteristic episode from one of the popular Aesop’s fables. Most of them are modeled on Gheeraerts’s etchings for De warachtighe fabulen der dieren via their copies by Aegidius Sadeler II made for his Theatrum morum (Sadeler’s book was at Trost’s disposal in Valvasor’s library at Bogenšperk Castle). The article examines the strategies used for integrating Gheeraerts’s fables illustrations into the new format, thus revealing the inventiveness and virtuosity of Valvasor’s master engraver. It also tries to answer two questions of crucial importance: why did Trost choose Gheeraerts’s illustrations as his models and what is the actual function of the animal fable scenes in the new context?
O podnebnih in vremenskih razmerah na Slovenskem pred začetkom rednih in neprekinjenih meteoroloških meritev je razmeroma malo znanega. Nekaj več informacij je za 17. st., še posebej za drugo ...polovico, v kateri je deloval kranjski polihistor J. V. Valvasor. Njegove zapise o vremenu in podnebju lahko dopolnimo tudi z zapisi ljubljanskega kronista J. G. Dolničarja. Kljub določenim omejitvam pri uporabi teh virov lahko z uporabo dodatnih informacij zadovoljivo predstavimo tedanje vreme in podnebje ter njegove posledice v družbenem okolju.
O podnebnih in vremenskih razmerah na Slovenskem pred začetkom rednih in neprekinjenih meteoroloških meritev je razmeroma malo znanega. Nekaj več informacij je za 17. st., še posebej za drugo ...polovico, v kateri je deloval kranjski polihistor J. V. Valvasor. Njegove zapise o vremenu in podnebju lahko dopolnimo tudi z zapisi ljubljanskega kronista J. G. Dolničarja. Kljub določenim omejitvam pri uporabi teh virov lahko z uporabo dodatnih informacij zadovoljivo predstavimo tedanje vreme in podnebje ter njegove posledice v družbenem okolju.
The youngest daughter of polyhistor Janez Vajkard Valvasor (1641-1693), Regina Konstancija, whose married name was Dienersperg, had been recently rediscovered after having disappeared into oblivion ...for over a century; she was the only one of Valvasor's children to have grandchildren herself. While the family tree of her first daughter, Countess Paradeiser, died out in Carniola in 1823 the Styrian branch of her second daughter, mar. Dienersperg, had been continuing to the present. Her last descendant, who had lived in Slovenia, died a tragic death in 1941. The majority of Valvasor's descendants still live in Austria. Of his many talents and interests, they inheried primarily his love of uniform, with a number of officiers hacving served in different armies, but at least some of them also inherited the affinity for the written word. On the other hand, Valvasor's material legacy had already been lost in the first generation of his children. Among his descendants, the knowledge of their famous ancestor passed into oblivion relatively swiftly. Reprinted by permission of World Scientific Publishing
Despite being recognised as an exponent of Slovenian culture, the polymath Johann Weichard Valvasor has to date been undervalued in terms of his direct contribution to the aesthetic and literary ...consciousness of his homeland. He has been considered above all as a source of material for the works of others, while studies of broader scope underlining his original contribution in the sphere of Carniolan narrative, albeit in German, are still lacking. The present study, based on an attentive reading of the four volumes that compose his principal work, Die Ehre dess Hertzogthums Crain, seeks to identify all the passages that can be considered narrative units, numbering them progressively, cataloguing them by type and providing a brief summary of each. The corpus thus obtained – recorded in the appendix – has been described and appraised. Finally, individual narrative units have been compared with stories or popular songs of analogous content. The work is concluded by an evaluation of Valvasor's narrative gifts, setting the writer in a new light within the cultural and literary history of Slovenia.
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