Scienziati austriaci nel giudizio di Maria Teresa e di Pietro Leopoldo / Adam Wandruszka.
Abstract:
In 1774 Maria Theresa declined the project for an academy of science, writing that she could not resolve to start an academy with "three ex-jesuits and a professor of chemistry although capable", The "Reflections upon the state of the Monarchy" written by her son Peter Leopold, Grand-duke of Tuscany - later, Roman Emperor Leopold II - during his stay in Vienna in 1778-1779, enable us to identify with great probability the scientists whom Maria Theresa had in mind in her remark, often quoted and criticized (the professor of chemistry and botany Jacquin, the mathematicians Hell and Liesganig and the professor of physics Herbert, all three ex-jesuits); these reflections illustrate at the same time the general situation of science and instruction in the Austrian Monarchy at the end of Maria Theresa's reign
Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di storia della scienza di Firenze A. 1, fasc. 1 (1976), p. 63-69