Technikatörténeti szemle 11. (1979)
TANULMÁNYOK - Vajda Pál: Creative Hungarians in mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, technical sciences and industry. A selected bio-bibliography
SIXTEENTH-CENTURY DUDITH, András (1533—1589). Astronomer, mathematician. András Dudith combined political and religious activity with the interests of a humanist and scientist in a manner common in the XVIth century. Dudith is known mainly by his contribution to the controversy over the comet in 1577. (Heilman lists more than one hundred publications on this comet.) Dudith accepted, however, Aristotle’s physical explanation of comets as accidental exhalations of hot air from the earth that rise in the sublunar sphere. Costil, P.: André Dudith. Humaniste Hongrois 1533—1589. Sa vie, son oeuvre et ses manuscrits grecs, Paris 1935. 482 p. DSB EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BORN, Ignaz (1742—1791). Mineralogist, geologist. In 1784 he invented and introduced a technique for the recovery of precious metals from their ores by means of mercury, known ais amalgamation or „European Amalgamation” today. As a result of Born’s amalgamation experiments the first European amalgamation plant was set up near Selmecbánya in 1784. Schleicher A.: Hungary, the Cradle of the So-Called European Amalgamation (= ATH 39. 1962 pp. 441—449.1, Pezzl J.: Lebensbeschreibung des Fürsten Raimund Montekukoli, des Fürsten Wenzel Lichtenstein und des Hofrates Ignaz v. Born, Wien 1792., C. v. Ernst: Ignaz v. Born (= Berg und Hüttenmännisches Jahrbuch der K. K. Bergakademia zu Leoben und Pribram und... Bergakademie zu Chemnitz XLV. 1897. pp. 1—20.1, Alexander Chalmer’s Biographical Dictionary VI. 1812. pp. 123—127., Johannsen O.: Aus der Frühzeit der berg- und hüttenmännischen Lehranstalten in Ungarn (— Stahl und Eisen 63 1943. pp. 404—405.), Mayer P.: Ignaz Born (—Neue deutsche Biographie II. 1953.), Teich M.: Born’s Amalgamation Process and the International Metallurgie Gathering at Skleno in 1786 (= Annals of Science 32 1975. pp. 305—340.) DSB, CH, ITS, DHS HELL, József Károly (1713—1789), a pioneer of mining mechanization. Hell was the first to construct a compressed air-operated mining machine (ma- china hydraulica pneumatica, 1753); in 1749 he invented a water column pumping machine and in 1756 put into operation a ventilator of his own design. Jars M.: Description d’une nouvelle machine executée aux Mines de Schemnitz en Hongrie, au mois de mars 1755 (= Mémoires de mathématique et de physique, présentés a l’Académie Royale des Sciences, par divers Savans, & lus dans ses Assemblés. tom. V. Paris 1768. pp. 67—71), Johannsen O.: Aus der Frühzeit der berg-und hüttenmännischen Lehranstalten in Ungarn (== Stahl und Eisen 63/1943. pp. 404—405.), Delius Chr. T.: Anleitung zu der Bergbaukunst nach ihrer Theorie und Ausübung etc. Wien 1773., Burke L. R. H.: The History and Modern Application of Gas Lift (= Journ. of Petroleum Technology Jan. 1952. p. 19.), Matschoss C.: Grosse Ingenieure, München 1954. p. 110., J. Faller: 18th century pioneers of mine mechanisation in Hungary (= ATH 9. 1956. pp. 474.), Vozár, J.: Watercolumn pumping machines of J. K. Hell in world mining technique (= Acta hist. rer. nat. techn. Spec. Issue 7. Prague 1974. pp. 51—63.) Károlyi Zs.: Zur ungarischen Entwicklungsgeschichte der Wassermaschinen (= JDM pp. 47—72.), Majer J.: Fire and Watercolumn Engines in European mining. (Three studies in the history of technics, Prague 1976. pp. 63—79.) WHC 37
