CROATIA Presentation Faust Vrančić

by Ana Hren Trgovačka škola, Zagreb

ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE

 born: January 1, 1551 in Šibenik  died: January 20, 1617 in Venezia  a Croatian polymath, a linguist, an inventor,

a diplomat, an engineer, a priest, a bishop

 one of the most important Croats of all time

ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE

 born in Šibenik, Venetian

Dalmatia, into the family of counts Vrančić (Veranzio)  son of a Latin poet  nephew of a diplomat

Šibenik in 1576

ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE

 spent summers on Prvić Island

 today there’s a memorial centre

in his honour

Faust Vrančić Memorial Centre

ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE

 studied law in Venice

 university in Padua - focused on law, physics, engineering and mechanics

 homo universalis  chancellor for Hungary and Transylvania in Prague

ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE

 after his wife's death, he left for Hungary - in 1598 bishop of Csanád

 1609 Venice – he joined the brotherhood of Paul of Tarsus and

committed himself to the study of science

 died in 1617 in Venice

 buried in Dalmatia, near his family's country house on the island

of Prvić

ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE

 Machinae Novae

 published in Venice in 1615 or 1616  contained 49 large pictures depicting

56 different machines, devices, and technical concepts

 in Italian, Spanish, French and German Faust Vrančić „Machinae Novae”

ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE

 „Flying Man” or Homo Volans (lat.)  Machinae Novae plate no. 38  it is widely believed that he performed

an actual parachute jumping experiment in Venice when he was 65

Homo Volans

ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE

 Machinae Novae plate no. 34  predated the actual construction of

modern suspension bridges and cablestayed bridges by over two centuries

Pons Ferreus

ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE

 Machinae Novae plate no. 13  a wind turbine with a horizontal rotor

with blades that today's turbines have

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 Machinae Novae plate no. 24  used to suppress the oil  operated by people

Mola Olearia

ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE

 spent 2 years in Rome – projects for regulation of the river Tiber  dealt with the problem of wells and water supply in Venice

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 in 1595 he published a dictionary  in Latin, Italian, German, Croatian and

Hungarian

 the „five noblest European languages”  304 Hungarian words he believed were

borrowed from Croatian

 it greatly influenced the formation of both

the Croatian and Hungarian orthography

 the first dictionary of Hungarian language

ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE

 manuscript Regulae cancellariae regni Hungariae  manuscript De Slavinis seu Sarmatis in Dalmatia  Scriptores rerum hungaricum, published in 1798  Logica nova and Ethica christiana, published in 1616

ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE

 his jump in Venice is considered to be the first base jump  spoke fluently at least 7 languages  in contact with Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe

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 http://slagalica.nsk.hr/machinae-novae/  http://www.mc-faustvrancic.com/Postav/  http://genius-croatia.com/dt_portfolio/faust-vrancic/

ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE