John Jonston or Johnston (Polish: Jan Jonston; Latin: Joannes or Johannes Jonstonus or Johnstonus; 15 September 1603 – c. 1675) was a Polish scholar and...
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The Catoblepas as depicted by Jan Jonston, Historia naturalis de quadrupedibus, Amsterdam, 1614...
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notable thinkers such as the Czech pedagogue, Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius), and the Pole, Jan Jonston. Jonston was tutor and physician to the Leszczyński...
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German-Jewish novelist Zvi Hirsch Kalischer (1795–1874); German Orthodox rabbi Jan Jonston (1603–1675), Reformed teacher and scholar, physician Leser Landshuth...
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Cała Marek Jan Chodakiewicz Piotr Cywiński Tadeusz Czacki Norman Davies, British-Polish historian Małgorzata Dąbrowska, historian, Byzantist Jan Długosz...
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was to be taken away by Jan Jonston (1603–1675), a Scot by birth, to his estate in Składowice . However, on the way Jonston was attacked in Wschowa and...
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inventor, constructed the world's first aerial lift in Gdańsk in 1644. Jan Jonston, Polish scholar and physician of Scottish descent; author of Thautomatographia...
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displayed in a special section of exhibition. They include manuscripts by Jan Kochanowski , Juliusz Słowacki, Adam Mickiewicz, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Zbigniew...
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or similar claims, often with the same depictions. These include John Jonston's Historiae naturalis de quadrupetibus libri from 1655, whose illustrations...
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in the world, is founded in Rome by Federico Cesi. September 15 – John Jonston, Polish naturalist and physician (died 1675) Blaise Francois Pagan, French...
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