A walk Around Gdańsk for Physicists

Andrzej Januszajtis

doi:10.1007/s00016-011-0066-5

A walk Around Gdańsk for Physicists

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I provide a guide to Gdańsk (Danzig) and some of its suburbs, focusing on sites of particular interest to physicists. These include the Town Hall with the old Gdańsk standards of length at its entrance, the solar dial of 1588 on its corner, and its bell tower; the Naturalists Society; the medieval harbor crane; the medieval astronomical clock in St. Mary's Church; the late nineteenth-century lighthouse and time ball; and sites associated with Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687), Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736), and Daniel Gralath (1708-1767). I also comment on the history of and physical research being carried out today at the Technical University of Gdańsk and the University of Gdańsk.

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Category:: Articles
Type:: artykuł w czasopiśmie wyróżnionym w JCR
Published in:: PHYSICS IN PERSPECTIVE no. 13, pages 456 - 480,
ISSN: 1422-6944
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2011
Bibliographic description:: Januszajtis A.: A walk Around Gdańsk for Physicists// PHYSICS IN PERSPECTIVE. -Vol. 13, nr. Iss. 4 (2011), s.456-480
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1007/s00016-011-0066-5
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