{"id":182812,"date":"2021-06-15T17:11:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T15:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=182812"},"modified":"2021-06-15T17:11:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T15:11:04","slug":"hevelius-works-from-the-gdansk-library-of-the-polish-academy-of-sciences-enlisted-into-the-unesco-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/hevelius-works-from-the-gdansk-library-of-the-polish-academy-of-sciences-enlisted-into-the-unesco-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Hevelius works from the Gda\u0144sk Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences enlisted into the UNESCO list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The unique collection of works of the Polish astronomer Jan Hevelius kept in the Gda\u0144sk Library, an auxiliary research unit of the Polish Academy of Sciences, was included on the Polish National List of the UNESCO &#8220;Memory of the World&#8221; Program.\u00a0The library is the only place in the world having a set of printed works by the Gda\u0144sk astronomer.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Five works by Jan Hevelius have been enlisted into the UNESCO list, including unique copies with the author&#8217;s dedication and drawings colored by the scientist himself.\u00a0Earlier the UNESCO accepted the Constitution of May 3, 1791, the oldest Polish chronicle of Gall Anonymus from the 12th century and the autograph of &#8220;Pan Tadeusz&#8221; by Adam Mickiewicz.<\/p>\n<p>The collection of Hevelius books in the Gda\u0144sk library includes 19 items. Most of them were published in the years 1674\u20131690 in Gda\u0144sk. The library&#8217;s resources also include numerous prints containing reports on-sky observations. Some of them (&#8220;Selenographia&#8221; and &#8220;Machina coelestis&#8221;) were given by Hevelius himself, which was evidenced by his handwritten dedications.<\/p>\n<p>More:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=ru&amp;prev=_t&amp;sl=pl&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http:\/\/bgpan.gda.pl\/aktualnosc\/dziela-heweliusza-wpisane-na-liste-unesco\/\">http:\/\/bgpan.gda.pl\/aktualnosc\/dziela-heweliusza-wpisane-na-liste-unesco\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unique collection of works of the Polish astronomer Jan Hevelius kept in the Gda\u0144sk Library, an auxiliary research unit of the Polish Academy of Sciences, was included on the Polish National List of the UNESCO &#8220;Memory of the World&#8221; Program.\u00a0The library is the only place in the world having a set of printed works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}