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Jan of Stobnica (ca. 1470 - 1530), was a
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and
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of the early 16th century.


Life

Jan of Stobnica was educated at the
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(Kraków Academy), where he taught as professor between 1498 and 1514. He is the author of numerous works on the subjects of
logic Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premises ...
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grammar In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structure, structural constraints on speakers' or writers' composition of clause (linguistics), clauses, phrases, and words. The term can also refer to the study of such constraint ...
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astronomy Astronomy () is a natural science that studies astronomical object, celestial objects and phenomena. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and chronology of the Universe, evolution. Objects of interest ...
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geography Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and ...
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mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...
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music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...
,
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s, and
ethics Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior".''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concerns m ...
. Jan of Stobnica was one of Kraków's adherents of
Scotism Scotism is the philosophical school and theological system named after John Duns Scotus, a 13th-century Scottish philosopher-theologian. The word comes from the name of its originator, whose ''Opus Oxoniense'' was one of the most important ...
, a philosophical school brought in from
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first by
Michał Twaróg of Bystrzyków Michał Twaróg of Bystrzyków ( pl, 'Michał Twaróg z Bystrzykowa'; lat, Michael vulgo Parisiensis de Majori Bystrzyków) (c. 1450–1520) was a Polish philosopher and theologian of the early 16th century. Life Michał Twaróg studied at Paris ...
(ca. 1450 - 1520). Jan of Stobnica became Michał's most prominent student. Jan's most famous work, entitled ''"Introductio in Ptholomei Cosmographiam"'' (''Introduction to the Cosmography of Ptolemy'') featured some of the first maps printed in Poland. Likewise, his edition of
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first contained a map of North and South America showing the connection of the two continents by an
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. It is one of the oldest known references to North America with the Gulf of Mexico delimited by the peninsula of Florida, peculiarly labeled "Isa-bella" (see engraving), which corresponds to the name of Cuba in primitive times, which in fact he left it blank. ''"Cosmographiam"'' by Jan of Stobnica, from 1512, are among some of the most precious Polonica of the
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holdings.


Works

Stobnica authored a number of works on logic, grammar, astronomy, geography, mathematics, music, natural science, ethics, and theology.


As author

* ''Parvulus philosophiae naturalis''. Kraków, drukarnia K. Hochfeder, 1503; Kraków, 1507; Kraków, 1513; Basel, 1516; Kraków, 1517. * ''De praedicatione abstractorum ex sententia Scoti tam in creatis quam in divinis ac transcendentibus''. Kraków, drukarnia J. Haller, 1505-1506 or 1515. * ''Introductio in doctrinam doctoris subtilissimi''. Kraków: drukarnia J. Haller, 1508. Also, ''Introductio in doctrinam doctoris subtilis''. Kraków, drukarnia F. Ungler, 1512; Kraków, 1515; Kraków, 1519. * ''Introductio in Ptholomei Cosmographiam cum longitudinibus & latitudinibus regionum & civitatum celebriorum''. Kraków: drukarnia F. Ungler, 1512; Kraków: F. Ungler, n.d.; Kraków, 1517; Kraków, 1519. * '' Generalis doctrina de modis significandi grammaticalibus''. (Kraków): drukarnia J. Haller or K. Hochfeder, n.d. (before 1508?); Kraków, 1515; Kraków, 1519.


As editor

* Michał z Bystrzykowa. ''Questiones in libros analyticorum priorum et elenchorum Aristotelis''. Kraków: drukarnia K. Hochfeder, 1505; Kraków, 1511. * Michał z Bystrzykowa. ''Questiones in libros analyticorum posteriorum et topicorum Aristotelis''. Kraków: drukarnia J. Haller, 1505; Kraków, drukarnia J. Haller, n.d. (1511?, 1520?). * ''Questiones veteris ac novae logicae cum resolutione textus Aristotelis clarissima: ad intentionem doctoris Scoti''. Kraków: drukarnia J. Haller, 1508; Kraków, 1507According to Estreicher these are lectures by Peter Roselle edited by Michał z Bystrzykowa. * Bruni Leonard Arentius. ''In moralem disciplinam introductio familiari Johannis de Stobnicza commentario explanata''. Kraków: drukarnia J. Haller, 1511; Vienna, 1515; Kraków, 1517.


Works with questionable authorship

* ''Historia totius vitae et passionis Domini nostri Jesu Christi. Ex quatuor Evangelisticis cellecta a fratre Joanne de Stobnica''. Kraków: 1523, drukarnia J. Haller; Kraków, 1525. It's not clear whether Jan of Stobnica wrote this work himself or simply published that of another author.


See also

*
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References


Notes


Bibliography

* Lerski, George J., Piotr Wróbel, and Richard J. Kozicki
''Historical dictionary of Poland, 966-1945''
p. 221. Greenwood Publishing Group. * Lewinski-Corwin, Edward H
''The Political History of Poland''
San Diego: University of California, 1917. * Sieciechowiczowa, L. ''Życie codzienne w renesansowym Poznaniu 1518-1619'', Warszawa 1974 * ''Bibliografia Literatury Polskiej – Nowy Korbut'', vol. 3, 289-91. Warsaw, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy: 1965. * “Jan ze Stobnicy(?).” In ''
Polski słownik biograficzny ''Polski Słownik Biograficzny'' (''PSB''; Polish Biographical Dictionary) is a Polish-language biographical dictionary, comprising an alphabetically arranged compilation of authoritative biographies of some 25,000 notable Poles and of foreigners ...
'', 10:480. * ''Filozofia w Polsce'', 145-47. * Palacz, Ryszard. "Jan ze Stobnicy." ''Materiały do Historii Filozofii średniowiecznej w Polsce'' 1 (12) (1970): 23-38.


External links


Works by Jan of Stobnica
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