Talk:Roger Joseph Boscovich

message: A number of sources claim that Boscovich is a Serbian scientist and of Serbian paternal origin. I haven't checked all the sources but most of the sources  talking about "Serbian scientist" not about "Serbian paternal origin". Sources which talk about "Serbian paternal origin" should be next to this claim. Mikola22 (talk) 12:01, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Done, thank you. Sadkσ (talk is cheap) 12:40, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:   Serbian paternal origin 

message: For about 200 years, Roger Boscovich's ancestry was not called into question - that's because there is no evidence his father was an ethnic Serb. The first time this claim was made was in 1910, by Branislav Petrinojevic. A likely reason this claim was made - that Roger was "as much Serb as he was Croat" - was that Croats claimed this about Nikola Tesla. In other words, it was just a reactionary claim and not based on any actual evidence. This claim was reprinted in English-language sources, who didn't confirm the validity of the claim, so it was repeated several times. The fact that something was falsely written and then repeated doesn't make it true, so it should be removed. There are no first-hand sources that suggest his father was an ethnic Serb.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:F2C0:E574:D34:399C:4E84:2DA7:E33C (talk) 03:06, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Boskovic is Serbian parental line. Not Croatian. There are hardly few ethnic Croats in Dubrovnik, until second half of XIX century. Later all Serbs Catholics were assimilated to Croats. 178.237.222.121 (talk) 18:00, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Its not enough to claim this without evidence. You have not addressed the previous statements namely that this claim doesn't appear literally anywhere until the early 20th century. As for the hardly few Croats in Dubrovnik pre 19th century claim, it's pure Serbian nationalistic fantasy. The Dubrovnik state archives are entirely intact and date back 500+ years and so your statement of fact is infact a pure fabrication of history. It would be shameful if not so lazy. 49.196.58.254 (talk) 13:32, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  I want the Serbian paternal ancestry section removed 

message: Why is there an entire section about nationality when a guy wrote himself what is his nationality?
Boscovich himself was proud of his Dalmatian identity. When d'Alembert in his Opuscule mathématiques... called him "an Italian mathematician", he shoot back that he was "a Dalmatian from Dubrovnik, and not an Italian".Harris, Robin. Dubrovnik, A History. London:Saqi Books, 2003. , p. 618 
Which would make him Croatian
Ayyven (talk) 17:14, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate.
Remove nationality section and write it in the first paragraph: 
Roger Joseph Boscovich[a] SJ (18 May 1711 – 13 February 1787) was a Croatian physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and a polymath from the Republic of Ragusa.
source: http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/jmac/sj/scientists/boscovich.htm
 ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:24, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

text: Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the  template. See discussion above ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 09:14, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 22 July 2021 

message: In the section "Boscovich's Demon" a reference is missing or has been removed. Please add the following reference to the scholarly article demonstrating the claims in this section:
Kožnjak Boris, "Who let the demon out? Laplace and Boscovich on determinism", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 51 (2015) 42–52. doi:10.1016/j.shpsa.2015.03.002 31.217.6.187 (talk) 10:02, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Added ResearchGate article since the website was not given Interesting Geek (talk) 18:55, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 29 September 2021 

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Change everything it is all bad
: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. M.Bitton (talk) 23:43, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 24 April 2023