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The Centre for the History of Sciences and Humanities specializes in historical investigation of scientific development understood in terms of intellectual and social history as an entirety of empirical, theoretical and practical knowledge leading to new findings produced by specific communities of researchers.
The time and thematic span in which research is pursued in the Centre is quite wide: from the cosmology of the Middle Ages, through analysis of the intellectual potential of the Early Modern 'res publica litteraria', to the 20th century communication in science and relation of science and politics. A long-term priority represents tracking the scientific development and transformation of the Czech scientific community in the multicultural and multinational interwar Czechoslovakia and during the totalitarian regimes, both the Nazi (1939–1945) and the communist (1948–1989) ones.
One of the principal topics the team was dealing with from 2010 to 2014 was the influence of totalitarian regimes of the 20th century on science and the scientific community in the Czech Lands. These issues were approached from multiple angles. The project focused, inter alia, on transformations of the community of scholars resulting from actions of the totalitarian regimes, with a particular accent on the persecution of scientists during WWII and on exiled scholars (see the Czech Scholars in Exile project); other topics included the abuse of science by the Nazi regime and issues of the scientific policy of the Communist regime.
The book One hundred Czech scholars in exile (2011, in Czech, ed. S. Štrbáňová and A. Kostlán) is a major contribution to a hitherto neglected topic of the emigration of intellectuals from the Czech Lands during the totalitarian regimes in the 20th century. It focuses on the Communist rule, presenting detailed life stories of 100 Czech exiled scientists from all disciplines, who achieved outstanding successes in their work. The extensive study by Antonín Kostlán deals with methodology, generalizes some features of the "collective biographies" of the scientists, and sets the 1948–1989 scientific exile into a broader context. The team's members (A. Kostlán, S. Štrbáňová, T. Hermann, J. Jindra) are the authors of the work's concept, the extensive opening study, and most of the entries in the encyclopedia; also cooperated in research, selection of personalities, preparations of figures and illustrations, and technical apparatus of the book.
The study of A. Kostlán and S. Štrbáňová, summarizing the Czech developments in a collective monograph published by Oxford University Press (In Defence of Learning, 2011): The study deals with the exile of scholars in 1938 and 1939, for the first time presenting the little-known issue for foreign audience and setting in into a broader context.
The study of A. Kostlán on exiled scientists and scholars during the Communist regime (Dějiny věd a techniky 43, 2010): focusing mainly on motives of their defection.
Events organized in the framework of the project included, in particular, the international Scholars in exile seminar/workshop in 2010 and the international Scholars in Exile and Dictatorships of the 20th Century conference in 2011, which produced a substantial international reaction (proceedings of the conference, including four contributions of the team's members, were made available in the form of an electronic publication in 2012).
All in all, the project has produced 85 outputs (including 3 international conferences, 2 workshops and 6 specialized books).
The team's members were paying a great deal of attention to the Disappeared elites project, which focuses primarily on notable members of the academic/scientific community in the Czech Lands who fell victim to and lost their lives as a result of Nazi persecution between 1939 and 1945.
Extensive and detailed archival research provided information on about two hundred victims the professional careers and biographies of whom would be presented to the public in a two-tome comprehensive prosopographical-encyclopedic publication supplemented by analytical studies (it is expected the books will be published by the Karolinum Publishing House in 2015 and 2016).
During the period covered by the present report, a subsidy/grant provided by the Rothschild Foundation helped publish the book Disappeared Science. Biographical Dictionary of Jewish Scholars from Bohemia and Moravia – Victims of Nazism, 1939–1945 (2013, published as Volume 29 of the "Studies in the History of Sciences and Humanities" series). The book contains detailed biographical portraits of 46 university professors and other outstanding scholars whose deaths were related to racial persecution. Its preparation made use of interdisciplinary approaches and hitherto unknown documents from both Czech and foreign archives. The team's members contributed to the book conceptually and heuristically, and also as coordinators, authors and editors (they wrote the opening study and about two thirds of its biographical entries, appendices, and technical parts).
The book Transporte in den Tod. Die Ermordung von Patienten aus dem Regierungsbezirk Troppau (Pirna 2011), which was based on new discovered sources and long and targeted research efforts of M. Šimůnek. He is also the author of the opening explanatory study and a co-author of two other key studies. The book clarifies the Nazi euthanasia programme as implemented in the Czech Lands between 1939 and 1945, using the example of transports of patients of psychiatric hospitals in Opava and Šternberk in Moravia to Pirna-Sonnenstein, where they were exterminated.
The study of M. V. Šimůnek on the Nazi euthanasia programme in Bohemia and Moravia in a book published by the Ferdinand Schöningh Publishing House (Die nationalsozialistische "Euthanasie"–Aktion "T4" und ihre Opfer. Geschichte ethische Konsequenzen für die Gegenwart, 2010); other studies dealing with a similar topic and written by M. Šimůnek were published in Dresdner Hefte and elsewhere.
The study of M. V. Šimůnek on the eugenic sterilization in the pre-war Czechoslovakia and during the Nazi regime in the so-called Reichsgau Sudetenland (Speciální pedagogika 22 and 24, 2012 and 2014).
The study of M. V. Šimůnek on the so-called National Political Educational Institute Bohemia (Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten, abbreviated as "Napola") based in Kutná Hora (AUC–HUCP 51, 2011).
The book Planning Socialist Science. Documents From 1960 on the Current State and Development of Natural and Technical Sciences in Czechoslovakia (2013, in Czech, published as Volume 30 of the "Studies in the History of Sciences and Humanities" series): it contains editions of period documents on the development of different natural science areas and disciplines, as well as studies providing an insight into the circumstances under which the documents were produced. T. Hermann is one of the editors of the book (together with D. Olšáková) and one of the five authors of the study opening the book.
Period transformations of the discourse on science and research between 1945 and 1989 in relation to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia were dealt with in A. Kostlán's study published in the book The Czech and Slovak Communism 1921–2011 (2012, in Czech).
Furthermore, the period covered herein saw the publication of studies focusing on the development of different natural science disciplines in the Czech Lands. These studies focus either on outstanding personalities connected with the different disciplines, or on changes of paradigms of the disciplines and of conditions of research activities.
Part I: Pseudo-Hyginus: Fabulae: a translation into Czech, plus a professional interpretation of the work which played a key role in transferring ancient astronomical knowledge and myths to later European scholars.
Part II: Gaius Iulius Hyginus: De astronomia: a translation into Czech, plus a professional interpretation of both Hyginus's work and of Pseudo–Eratosthenes's work Catasterismi. To provide a complete picture, the book also contains Radislav Hošek's 1986 translation of the short work Phaenomena (by Aratus of Soli).
Part III: Medieval Treatises on Constellations (ms. Prague, NL XXVI A 3): An edition of the Latin original and a Czech translation of the manuscript treatise dating back to about 1405 are accompanied by extensive illustrated studies (one written by Lenka Panušková, the remaining ones by A. Hadravová).
Part IV: Catalogues of stars and Premyslid Celestial Globe: an analysis of the oldest preserved celestial globe (now in Bernkastel–Kues, in the 13th century probably an item in the collection of Czech kings), which is modeled on its ancient predecessors and constructed with an extraordinary precision according to Ptolemy's coordinates of stars, plus an edition of the Latin original and a Czech translation of al-Sufi's Catalogue of Fixed Stars (ms. Prague, Strahov, DA II 13). The book was prepared in cooperation with astrophysicist Petr Hadrava, who was responsible for astronomic calculations and mathematic aspects of the topic. Both authors also wrote a number of smaller accompanying studies published both in the Czech Republic and abroad.
A book published on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Johannes Kepler's work Astronomia nova by the National Technical Museum (Kepler´s heritage in the Space Age, 2010): A. Hadravová is one of the three editors of the book and she contributed a study on Kepler's Dissertatio with Galileo Galilei to it (together with P. Hadrava). The two astronomers' names also appear in her study on astronomic prints during the time of Rudolf II (Knihy a dějiny 20, 2013).
The transfer of ancient astronomic knowledge to the Medieval astronomy is the topic of choice of many studies of A. Hadravová: in a book published by the Lidové Noviny Publishing House (Captured by a Medieval Image, 2011, in Czech); the Arabian role in the transfer is examined in a book published by the West Bohemian University (Traces of/in Saffron, 2012, in Czech) or in her contribution to Proceedings of the Third Conference on Cultural Astronomy (Universita degli Studi del Molise, 2012) etc.
A study of M. Šimůnek and U. Hossfeld on Mendel's manuscript Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden, published in Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology (15, 2010).
An edition of letters on Mendel by leading European scientists/scholars of the first half of the 20th century, which was published as Volume 28 of the "Studies in the History of Sciences and Humanities" series: M. Šimůnek was one of the four editors of the book.
An edition of letters of Armin and Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg on Mendel, which was published as Volume 27 of the "Studies in the History of Sciences and Humanities" series: M. Šimůnek was one of the four editors of the book. The topic was also dealt with in studies of a team of authors published in Theory in Biosciences (131, 2012, Impact factor 1.078) and Plant Biology (13, 2011, Impact factor 2.405).
Documentation on the publishing of Wilhelm Roux's Archives of Developmental Biology (1894–2004) was published as Volume 24 of the "Studies in the History of Sciences and Humanities" series: M. Šimůnek was one of the five editors of the book.
A book published by Franz Steiner, Stuttgart, which contains a selection of the most important texts on the development of genetics in the Czech Lands between 1900 and 1930 (Mendelism in Bohemia and Moravia, 1900–1930, 2010): M. Šimůnek was one of the four editors of the book.
A selective bibliography of genetics in the Czech Lands between 1900 and 1930 (Folia Mendeliana 47, 2011): M. Šimůnek was one of the three authors.
A number of additional studies for international audience published in Theory in Biosciences, Studies in the History of Biology and other magazines and journals.
M. V. Šimůnek's study on the death of R. Heydrich in the medical context (Dějiny věd a techniky 45, 2012, two volumes): the study deals with the assassination of Acting Reichsprotektor R. Heydrich in June 1942, making use of hitherto unpublished medical documents.
S. Štrbáňová's study on blood as a subject of research at faculties of medicine in Prague, presented in a book published by Klartext Verlag (Blut. Perspektiven in Medizin, Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 2011).
M. V. Šimůnek's study on the so-called Czech Students Action during WWII in a book published by Synchron Verlag (Medizinische Fakultäten in der deutschen Hochschullandschaft 1925–1950, 2013): on Czech students of medicine at German faculties of medicine after the closing of Czech universities.
In the book published by Palgrave Macmillan (The nationalisation of the scientific knowledge in the Habsburg empire, 1848–1918, 2012), S. Štrbáňová focused on the discrepancy between the international nature of research and national ideologies influencing the development sciences, using chemists during the period of Czech national revival in the 19th century as an example.
S. Štrbáňová a J. Jindra published some studies on physical chemist Bohuslav Raýman in the journal Práce z dějin Akademie věd (3, 2011) and elsewhere.
J. Jindra published a number of specific studies on Jaroslav Heyrovský and his way to the Nobel Prize and on other topics relating to the history of chemistry and physical chemistry in different journals, magazines, and conference proceedings. Jaroslav Heyrovský was also the subject of his two material works published as electronic books From the letters of Jaroslav Heyrovský and Jaroslav Heyrovský and the United States of America (2012 and 2014, in Czech).
The book A history of the nuclear fields in the Czech lands (Czechoslovakia). Historical data and documents, 1896–1945 (2010, in Czech): the author, E. Těšínská, wrote it as a part of her grant-funded project.
The book Professor Čeněk Strouhal: founder of the Czech experimental physics (2012, in Czech) published by the Academia Publishing House: E. Těšínská is one of the book's co-editors and the author of its extensive chapter on Strouhal's organizational work.
E. Těšínská's study on physicist Ernst Mach's pupils and stay in Prague in the book published by Sentinel Open Press (Ernst Mach´s Prague 1857–1895 as a human adventure, 2010); she was also the author of a chapter devoted to the same topic in Ernst Mach – physics – philosophy – education (Vol. 2, Brno 2010, in Czech).
A study on the teaching of physics at faculties of medicine in Prague (AUC–HUCP 51, 2012): the author is E. Těšínská, in cooperation with L. Hlaváčková.
A study on A. Einstein, with a particular focus on his stay in Prague in 1911–1912: E. Těšínská (Pokroky matematiky, fyziky a astronomie 57, 2012).
A number of other articles by E. Těšínská and J. Jindra on the history of physics and radiology have been published in the Československý časopis pro fyziku and Bezpečnost jaderné energie magazines, as well as in various conference proceedings or as entries in foreign encyclopedias and elsewhere.
Older history of meteorology is the topic of a study of A. Hadravová, which deals with "The Book of Twenty Arts" by Master Pavel Žídek (Paulerinus) and other selected sources (Studie o rukopisech 44, 2014); Žídek's work is also analyzed in her study in a book published by the Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (Humanism in multiple perspectives, 2014, in Czech).
T. Hermann and M. V. Šimůnek followed in the footsteps of their earlier research on the reception of Darwinism in the Czech Lands in a joint study "Discussion of evolution between neo-Lamarckism and neo-Darwinism in the Czech lands, 1900–1915" (Teorie vědy 32, 2010): it deals with the biological thinking in the Czech Lands in the early 20th century, when different opinions on the evolution and heredity were formed, and shows the contribution of the Czech and German biology and specific local centres of those days. Other studies on the same issues were also published elsewhere.
The Academia Publishing House published the book J. E. Purkinje: Fragments from the Diary of Perished Naturalist: On the Soul of the Earth and Romantic Science (2010, in Czech, edited by T. Hermann and V. Cílek): it brings a commented Czech translation of an essay by J. E. Purkyně, a notable Czech 19th century naturalist, and a number of essays by today's natural scientists. T. Hermann was one of the two editors of the book, provided its opening study, editorial and bibliographic notes, and is also the authors of one of the chapters in the second part of the book.
A selection of Horský's studies on Renaissance cosmology and new sciences, published by Pavel Mervart's publishing house (Copernicus and the Czech lands, 2011, in Czech): T. Hermann is the co-author of the study on Horský and the author of editorial and bibliographic comments; A. Hadravová is the co-author of the comment on Horský's interpretations of frescos.
In addition, Horský's catalogue of scientific instruments of the 16th to 19th centuries in the collections of the Regional Museum in Mikulov was published (Historical scientific instruments in the collections of the Mikulov Museum, 2011, in Czech): A. Hadravová is a member of the team of editors and one of the co-authors of the introduction. The publication received the "Gloria Musaealis" award of the Ministry of Culture and the Association of Museums and Galleries in 2011.
At the moment, the book Roman Jakobson: Wisdom of old Czechs. A commented edition with a follow-on exile polemics (2015, in Czech), published shortly after the closing date of the first phase of the evaluation presented herein, is already available.
T. Hermann's study mapping transformations of the dispute concerning freedom of the Czech philosophy (Filosofický časopis 61, 2012): it deals with developments in the 19th and 20th centuries.
A. Hadravová's study on classical philologist Antonín Bartoněk (Dějiny věd a techniky 43 and 46, 2011 and 2013).
M. Šedivá-Koldinská's study on the normalization historiography focused on the early modern age was published in the book Niches of the Czech historiography (ed. D. Olšáková, 2012, in Czech).
A. Kostlán's study on the early phase of Czech-Polish intellectual relations and contacts 'Kto Bogu wiernie służy, temu wiek szczęśnie płuzy'. Czech-Polish relations in light of the Album Amicorum of the Moravian Calvinist Jan Opsimathes (Acta Comeniana.22/23, 2009, published in 2010).
The same author depicts and analyzes broader religionistic consequences of the above communication during the times before the Battle of Bílá Hora in a study included in a book published by Franz Steiner (Religion und Politik im frühneuzeitlichen Böhmen, 2014).
A. Kostlán's study turns to the collections of Rudolf II from the angle of their relation to the history of scientific thinking (Studia Rudolphina 11, 2011).
The first attempt to synthesize the development of Czech scientific institutions was published by the Academia Publishing House (Bohemia docta. The historical roots of science in the Czech lands, 2010, in Czech): The book maps the entire development of Czech non-university science, from the beginning of humanistic learned societies to the transformation of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences to the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. It also mentions scientific institutions of Germans living in the Czech Lands. A. Kostlán was one of the three editors of the work and the author of three of its chapters, E. Těšínská is the author of another chapter. Bohemia docta received the 2010 Jury Award of the Academia Publishing House. An extended English version of the book was prepared in 2013 and 2014, which is now awaiting publication.
Since 2014, the team's members have been involved in the Transformations of the Czech Academy of Sciences 1989/1992–2014 interdisciplinary project, together with researchers of the Masaryk Institute and Archive, CAS, Institute of Philosophy, CAS, and other institutions. The purpose of the project, which the leadership of the Academy has allocated a special funding to, is an analytical evaluation of the overall development of research activities of the leading Czech scientific institution under the new democratic regime. A. Kostlán is the project team head, with S. Štrbáňová and M. Šimůnek taking part in it as well.
Between 2010 and 2014, the team's members also participated in the European project The Idea of a University (ESF, OP "Education for Competitiveness", through the University of Pardubice). The team's principal contribution to the project was documentary (creation of a 30-episode audio-visual series dedicated to outstanding Czech scientists, scholars and philosophers – for details please refer to Section 3.10, Par 3).
In addition, the project gathered a relatively substantial heuristic base and included targeted interviews with notable Czech scientists and philosophers. Together with other documents and an evaluation, these interviews have been collected in a book, actually a five-tome publication which has already been prepared for publication by the University of Pardubice in the spring of 2015.
During the period reviewed in the present report, foreign cooperation was taking place, inter alia, under an agreement with the The National Hellenic Research Foundation – Institute for Neohellenic Research (Athens, Greece), which pertains to the history of astronomy. At the turn of 2014 and 2015, the team's members started participating in an international project of the Erinnerung, Verantwortung, Zukunft Foundation (Ausschreibung „Vergessene NS-Opfer") named "Tschechische und deutsche Psychiatriepatienten in Böhmen und Mähren: Stigmatisierte Menschen zwischen NS-"Euthanasie" (1940–1945) und Vergessen (1945–1950)" – with M. Šimůnek as its guarantor. Guests of the team included outstanding researchers from abroad, e.g. Gábor Palló (Hungarian Academy of Science) and Karel Raška (Czechoslovak Society of Arts & Sciences, New York) in 2010, Josef Michl (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) in 2010 and 2012, or Elisabeth van Meer (College of Charleston, USA), 2014.
The Disappeared Elites project continues to be one of the most important projects of the team. It focuses on victims of Nazi persecution from among the academic/scientific community in the Czech Lands. An encyclopedic book will be prepared and published as a sequel to the first volume, which will contain biograms of all approximately 200 individuals who were direct victims of the terror. Additional publications will deal with the topography of the terror, evaluate the topic using prosopographical methods, and touch upon post-war commemoration the events.
Another important item which will remain on the research agenda in the next period will be that of scholars and scientists in exile. The key topic in this respect is the research of personal lives and professional careers of scholars and scientists who fled to English-speaking countries (United Kingdom, USA) during WWII, with a particular accent on their post-war fates in the divided world.
Another research theme will comprise issues related to the application of technocratic tendencies in the Czechoslovak history of the 20th century (formulation of the scientific policy as a tool of technocratic management, implementation of expert opinions in the process of formulation of strategic policies at the governmental and municipal levels etc.). The research will also focus on selected issues of mutual relations between scientific research and production (on an example of water management planning).
All the work in this field are aimed at the concept of a monograph bringing a comprehensive analysis of the development of the Czech scientific community between 1900 and 2014, with an emphasis on deformations and differences caused by the influence of totalitarian regimes.
The theme of science as a form of communication will be yet another important research item, the main reason being that the team's members can join forces with researchers from other institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences or from universities in this field; this is actually why the topic has been included in the "Society and Communication" research circuit of the AV21 Strategy (A. Kostlán has been appointed the coordinator of the "Science as a tool of communication" topic). The research will focus on an analysis of forms and tools of communication employed in interdisciplinary communication, institutional support and management of scientific research, and in science-society interactions. Special attention will be paid to the involvement and position of Czech research in the European and global context and the use of scientific research results in everyday life. The project team will cooperate mainly with the Masaryk Institute & Archive of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and Institutes of Sociology and Philosophy, CAS. Some natural science institutions will also participate in the project.
Astronomy: The research will focus on traditions and reception of ancient sciences and learning during the Middle Ages and early Modern Era. Editions and translations of and comments on hitherto unpublished Medieval Latin manuscripts on astronomy and selected incunabula and old prints will be prepared. The work will be approached in an interdisciplinary manner, in cooperation with other institutions, particularly with the Institute of Astronomy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and researchers from abroad.
Medical science and genetics (including biological radiology): The work in this field will consist in building up the source base by collecting documents and also using methods of oral history (interviews with leading representatives of the disciplines). The work will be coordinated mainly with the 1st Faculty of Medicine – Institute for History of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, and structured so that it can provide a foundation for a future synthesis of the topic.
Other biological and chemical disciplines: The research will focus on transformations of relations between natural sciences and philosophy; one of its preferred topics will be the reception of the so-called Michurinist biology in Czechoslovakia. It is expected that some biographies which have been worked on for some time (Marjory Stephenson and the Czech environment, Bohuslav Raýman etc.) will be completed.
Social sciences and humanities: The subject of the research will comprise, in particular, transformations of forms and functions of models of so-called Western or bourgeois scientific and philosophical schools throughout the 1948–1989 period, including the period institutionalization of their products and applications (especially the Czechoslovak-Soviet Institute, Institute for Philosophy and Sociology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences etc.). As to Czechoslovakia´s dissident movement, the research will examine issues related to independent Czech philosophy.
Non-University Institutions in Science and Humanities, 1890-2015 (Prague 2015, May 27–29): A. Kostlán is the author of the event's concept and a member of the organization team.
7th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science (Prague 2016, September 22–24): S. Štrbáňová and A. Kostlán are the authors of the concept (Science and Politics, Science as Politics) and members of the organization team.
One of key prerequisites of an optimal environment for research in the field of history of science seems to be a redefinition of the interim status of the Centre for the History of Sciences and Humanities, in which the interdisciplinary research is concentrated at the Institute for Contemporary History. It will be necessary either to strengthen the autonomy of the Centre e.g. in the form of a joint centre of several institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences, or to better coordinate its activities with those of other departments of the Institute for Contemporary History.
Sphaera octava. Mýty a věda o hvězdách II. Gaius Iulius Hyginus: O astronomii (De astronomia).
Sphaera octava. Mýty a věda o hvězdách III. Středověká pojednání o souhvězdích. Traktát o uspořádání stálic na nebi v rukopise Praha, NK XXVI A 3.
Sphaera octava. Mýty a věda o hvězdách I. Pseudo-Hyginus: Báje (Fabulae).
Sphaera octava. Mýty a věda o hvězdách IV. Katalogy hvězd a přemyslovský nebeský glóbus.
Plánování socialistické vědy. Dokumenty z roku 1960 ke stavu a rozvoji přírodních a technických věd v Československu.
Disappeared Science. Biographical Dictionary of Jewish Scholars from Bohemia and Moravia – Victims of Nazism, 1939-1945.
Koperník a české země. Soubor studií o renesanční kosmologii a nové vědě.
Historické vědecké přístroje v mikulovských sbírkách. Katalog vědeckých přístrojů z 16. až 19. století ve sbírkách Regionálního muzea v Mikulově.
Wilhelm Roux's Archives of developmental biology. 1894-2004. An author index, introductory essays and classical papers.
The letters on G.J. Mendel. Correspondence of William Bateson, Hugo Iltis, and Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg with Alois and Ferdinand Schindler, 1902-1935.
The Mendelian dioskuri. Correspondence of Armin with Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg, 1898-1951.
Sto českých vědců v exilu. Encyklopedie významných vědců z řad pracovníků Československé akademie věd v emigraci.
Kepler´s heritage in the Space Age. 400th anniversary of Astronomia nova.
Bohemia docta. K historickým kořenům vědy v českých zemích.
Mendelism in Bohemia and Moravia, 1900-1930. Collection of selected papers.
Dějiny jaderných oborů v českých zemích (Československu). Data a dokumenty (1896-1945).
Textová tradice výkladu o měsících a měsíčních pracích v Knize dvacatera umění mistra Pavla Žídka.
Der böhmische Calvinismus zwischen Majestätsbrief und der Schlacht am Weißen Berg.
Těšínská, Emilie - Pešek, M. - Ryba, J.
"Regiopulmotest", přístroj pro vyšetřování regionálních ventilací plic (Polozapomenutá historie znovuobjevená v rozhovorech s pamětníky).
Goedert, M. - Šimůnek, Michal V.
Hlaváčková, L. - Šimůnek, Michal V.
Kostlán, Antonín - Šimůnek, Michal V.
Disappeared Science. Jewish Scholars from Bohemia and Moravia – Victims of Nazism, 1939-1945 (Preface).
Kurt Konrad (birth name Kurt Beer).
Otto Wichterle. Jak jsme ho znali.
Martínek, Jiří - Šimůnek, Michal V.
Dokumenty o rozvoji věd v Československu z roku 1960 a jejich historický kontext.
Studium účinků ionizujícího záření na laboratorních zvířatech v československé lékařské radiologii a radiobiologii.
Arabské prostřednictví v dějinách středověké astronomie.
Raně novověké bádání v Čechách v 70. a 80. letech 20. století aneb Sedm příběhů z neradostných časů.
Intelektuál jako občan a strážce pečeti, nadobčan a svědomí lidstva, slouha a onuce.
KSČ a věda. Hlavní koncepty vědní politiky v Československu 1945-1989.

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