RUĐER BOŠKOVIĆ: DOES ANYONE KNOW WHO HIS FATHER IS?
RUĐER BOŠKOVIĆ: DOES ANYONE KNOW WHO HIS FATHER IS?

Summary/Abstract: One of the few remarkable scientists from this region, whose range of infl uence on later science, is still undetermined, a mathematician, astronomer, physicist, surveyor, philosopher, poet and diplomat, Ruđer Bošković, was born in the family of Nikola Bošković, a merchant and a business man from Orahov Dol in Popovo Polje, and Pavla Betera, the daughter of Baro Betera, a prominent citizen of Dubrovnik, who was at the same time a writer of Italian origin. Bearing in mind the contemporary scientific opportunities, recent Ragusan studies, both Croatian and Serbian, have not properly explored the complex relationship between his parents, especially the influence of the father to this ingenious scientist. This paper deals with the question of the parents influence and especially the father’s influence to the personality and work of Ruđer Bošković, and then actualizes that question.

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