The scholarly attention paid to Anna Katharina SweertsSporck has so far focused on the phase of her youth when she was engaged in translating books chosen by her father count Franz Anton Sporck for publishing. The article explores her interest in the book culture in the later stage of her life after her forced entrance into marriage in 1712. Anna Katharina initiated a large program of publishing and spreading devotional literature. The project was realized in cooperation with the Servite friar Wilhelm M. Löhrer and it aimed to cultivate internal, affective piety as a newly appraised type of religiosity which was increasingly popular across the confessional boundaries in the eighteenth century., Veronika Čapská., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy
This article provides a critical edition and exposition of several phrases from scholastic poems (or from two or four combined poems) with the incipit Ex fideli veterum scriptura cognovi (Walther, Initia No. 5984), whose authorship is ascribed to the protonotary of Václav IV., Vlachník of Weitmile († 1399), inspired by the intellectual atmosphere of the Prague Court.
Vortex shedding from a bluff body is a classical problem as well as an exciting challenge for fluid mechanics. Since the time of Prof. Strouhal at the end of the 19th century, the phenomenon has been frequently studied by several generations of researchers. This contribution introduces (1) the historical contest of the milestone studies, (2) motivations and goals of the recent investigations, and (3) recent original results of research on the fluid dynamics and heat transfer of heated and cooled circular cylinders in the cross-flow, obtained mainly in the Institute of Thermomechanics. and Obsahuje seznam literatury
The article is devoted to Mořic Hruban, a notable personality of Czech political Catholicism. His political role during World War I and in the period of the formation of the Czechoslovak Republic is analyzed here. This conservative and traditionally oriented Catholic gradually changed hisattitude towards some crucial questions; the supporter of the Habsburg Monarchy became an advocate of the Republic. Furthermore, he was one of its prominent statesmen and politicians till its downfall in 1938 and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou