Stanisław Solski was a Polish Jesuit mathematician and architect, born in Kalisz on 21 September 1622 and dead in Kraków on 9 August 1701, who published several works in Polish and Latin. Nothing is known of his early life. He joined the Jesuit Order in 1638, studied philosophy at Kalisz and theology at Poznań, and taught poetry at Krosno from 1652 and poetry and rhetoric at Kamieniec Podolski from 1653. In 1670 he moved to Kraków, where he worked mainly as architect to Bishop Jan Małachowski, designing and supervising the rebuilding and construction of churches and monasteries, among them the church of Saint Barbara. His works include two machines of 1661 and 1663 meant to show perpetual motion, the three books of Geometra Polski of 1683 to 1686, Architekt Polski of 1688, and a Latin Praxis nova et expeditissima mensurandi geometrice of 1688.
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Stanisław Solski (September 21, 1622, in Kalisz – August 9, 1701, in Kraków) was a Polish Jesuit mathematician and architect.
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Stanisław Solski (September 21, 1622, in Kalisz, August 9, 1701, in Kraków) was a Polish Jesuit mathematician and architect.
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Stanisław Solski (September 21, 1622, in Kalisz, August 9, 1701, in Kraków) was a Polish Jesuit mathematician and architect.
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He published several works in Polish and Latin.
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Machina motum perpetuum exhibens, 1661 Machina exhibendo motui perpetuo artificiali idonea, 1663 Geometra Polski: Księga 1, Księga 2, Księga 3, 1683-1686 Architekt Polski, 1688 Solski, Stanislaw (1688).
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