Dwa oświeceniowe wykłady geometrii — dyskursywny obraz świata
Two Enlightenment lectures on geometry: A discursive worldview

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the history of the Polish educational and scientific discourse. The paperexamines Polish texts by Józef Czech — Euklidesa początków jeometryi xsiąg ośmioro, to iest sześćpierwszych, jedenasta i dwunasta z dodanemi przypisami i trygonometrią dla pozytku młodzi aka-demickiey (Euclid’s six books on geometry, that is the first six books, the eleventh book and the twelfthbook with notes and geometry for the benefit of university youth, 1807) and by Ignacy Zaborowski —Jeometria praktyczna (Practical geometry, 1786).The science of the 19th century is an area for gaining empirical, theoretical, and practical know-ledge of the world. The paper discusses this problem in the context of methods which can be employedto analyze the image of the world. The author of the article presents the concept of discursive world-view, which is meant to enable the description of dynamic profiling of meanings in educational andscientific discourse.

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