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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:
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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
- Verified by:
- Gdańsk University of Technology
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