Anton Ambschel (Ambschl, Ambschell, Ambšl) (1 December 1746 in Cerknica – 14 July 1821 in

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) was a

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and astronomer. Anton Ambschel besides Jakob Štelin, Martin Kuralt and

Franz Samuel Karpe Franz Samuel Karpe, sl, Franc Samuel Karpe, cs, František Samuel Karpe (17 November 1747 – 4 September 1806) was a Slovenian philosopher and rector of University of Olomouc. Biography Karpe was born in Kranj, Carniola (nowadays Slovenia), to ...

presents a group of Slovene Enlightenment philosophers from the 17. and the 18. century. He was writing in Latin and later German. In year 1678 he entered the

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. Between years 1773 and 1785 he worked as a public and full professor of physics on Jesuits board in Ljubljana. Till 1785 he was also board chancellor. He was later dismissed. Till 1803 he was working as a professor of physics and mechanics at the University of Vienna. He was a member of Academia Operosorum Labacensium. Even though he was a physician, his main work in German, ''Anfangsgruende der allgemeinen auf Erscheinungen und Versuche gebauten Naturlehre I-VI'' was established via Liebniz-Wolff rationalism. With this book, he renounced his scholasticism. In this book he established nature empirically and physics was literary for describing effects between bodies.

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