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		⚫	'''Jan Śniadecki''' (29 August 1756 – 9 November 1830) was a ] ], ], and ] at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.

	==Life==		==Life==

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	== ~~Works~~ ==		== Honours ==

			The lunar crater '']'' and the main-belt asteroid ] were named in his honour.
⚫	* "Rachunku algebraicznego teoria" (])

⚫	* "Geografia, czyli opisanie matematyczne i fizyczne ziemi" (])
			== Works ==
	* "O Koperniku" (])
		⚫	* "Rachunku algebraicznego teoria" (1783)
	* "O rachunku losów" (])
		⚫	* "Geografia, czyli opisanie matematyczne i fizyczne ziemi" (1804)
⚫	* "Trygonometria kulista analitycznie wyłożona" (])
			* "Rozprawa o Koperniku" (''Discourse on ]'', biography, 1802)
⚫	* "O pismach klasycznych i romantycznych", Dziennik Wileński (])
	* "~~Filozofia~~ ~~umysłu~~ ~~ludzkiego~~" (])		* "O rachunku losów" (1817)
		⚫	* "Trygonometria kulista analitycznie wyłożona" (1817)
		⚫	* "O pismach klasycznych i romantycznych", Dziennik Wileński (1819)
			* "Filozofia umysłu ludzkiego" (1821)

	==See also==		==See also==
	* ]		* ]
			* ]

	==References==		==References==
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	* ], ''Historia filozofii'' (History of Philosophy), 3 vols., Warsaw, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1978.		* ], ''Historia filozofii'' (History of Philosophy), 3 vols., Warsaw, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1978.

			==External links==
			* in digital library ]

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Polish mathematician and philosopher

Jan Śniadecki
Jan Śniadecki (1823 painting by Jan Rustem)
Born	(1756-08-29)29 August 1756 Żnin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Died	9 November 1830(1830-11-09) (aged 74) Jašiūnai Manor, Partitioned Poland
Relatives	Jędrzej Śniadecki (brother)

Main interests	Mathematics, philosophy, astronomy

Signature

Jan Śniadecki (29 August 1756 – 9 November 1830) was a Polish mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Life

Born in Żnin, Śniadecki studied at Kraków Jagellonian University and in Paris. He was rector of the Imperial University of Vilnius, a member of the Commission of National Education, and director of astronomical observatories at Kraków (055) and Vilnius. He died at Jašiūnai Manor near Vilnius.

Śniadecki published many works, including his observations on recently discovered planetoids. His O rachunku losów (On the Calculation of Chance, 1817) was a work in probability.

He was brother to Jędrzej Śniadecki.

Honours

The lunar crater Sniadecki and the main-belt asteroid 1262 Sniadeckia were named in his honour.

Works

"Rachunku algebraicznego teoria" (1783)
"Geografia, czyli opisanie matematyczne i fizyczne ziemi" (1804)
"Rozprawa o Koperniku" (Discourse on Nicolaus Copernicus, biography, 1802)
"O rachunku losów" (1817)
"Trygonometria kulista analitycznie wyłożona" (1817)
"O pismach klasycznych i romantycznych", Dziennik Wileński (1819)
"Filozofia umysłu ludzkiego" (1821)

References

Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Historia filozofii (History of Philosophy), 3 vols., Warsaw, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1978.

External links

Works by Jan Śniadecki in digital library Polona

Age of Enlightenment

Topics

Thinkers

England	Addison Ashley-Cooper Bacon Bentham Collins Gibbon Godwin Harrington Hooke Johnson Locke Milton Newton Pope Price Priestley Reynolds Sidney Tindal Wollstonecraft
France	d'Alembert d'Argenson Bayle Beaumarchais Chamfort Châtelet Condillac Condorcet Descartes Diderot Fontenelle Gouges Helvétius d'Holbach Jaucourt La Mettrie Lavoisier Leclerc Mably Maréchal Meslier Montesquieu Morelly Pascal Quesnay Raynal Sade Turgot Voltaire
Geneva	Abauzit Bonnet Burlamaqui Prévost Rousseau Saussure
Germany	Goethe Herder Humboldt Kant Leibniz Lessing Lichtenberg Mendelssohn Pufendorf Schiller Thomasius Weishaupt Wieland Wolff
Greece	Farmakidis Feraios Kairis Korais
Ireland	Berkeley Boyle Burke Swift Toland
Italy	Beccaria Galiani Galvani Genovesi Pagano Verri Vico
Netherlands	Bekker de la Court Grotius Huygens Koerbagh Leeuwenhoek Mandeville Meyer Nieuwentyt Spinoza Swammerdam
Poland	Kołłątaj Konarski Krasicki Niemcewicz Poniatowski Śniadecki Staszic Wybicki
Portugal	Carvalho e Melo
Romania	Budai-Deleanu Maior Micu-Klein Șincai
Russia	Catherine II Fonvizin Kantemir Kheraskov Lomonosov Novikov Radishchev Vorontsova-Dashkova
Serbia	Obradović Mrazović
Spain	Cadalso Charles III Feijóo y Montenegro Moratín Jovellanos Villarroel
Scotland	Beattie Black Blair Boswell Burnett Burns Cullen Ferguson Hume Hutcheson Hutton Mill Newton Playfair Reid Smith Stewart
United States	Franklin Jefferson Madison Mason Paine

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