This article is a response to Daniela Tinková’s study Enlightenment as ‘vernacularization of knowledge’. In the first part we comment on the positive aspects of Tinková’s conception of the history of the Enlightenment, but also on the lack of clarity concerning the nature of knowledge as both a component of cultural transfer and the outcome of that process. The second part changes perspective, focussing on ‘the transfer of Enlightenment’ and the ‘radiation’ of Enlightenment from the Czech Lands to surrounding regions of the Habsburg monarchy, especially Galicia. For this reason the Czech Lands assumed a regional hegemony in many areas of administration and economic and intellectual life. We also attempt to explain the motivations for accepting ‘Enlightenment knowledge’ while relativizing the power asymmetries in these processes.
Technology of clean rooms in the present modern conception
has been used in Czech Republic for more than forty years. It
belongs to high technologies and has been used namely in electric
engineering industry, pharmacy, health-care technology, precision
mechanics and optics, in production of fine chemicals and food.
In the technology of clean rooms there is considered as a clean
room such a room where the concentration of particles in the air
is controlled and checked. Clean room is constructed and used in
such a way that minimalizes entry, creation and settling of particles
in the room. Further parameters as temperature, humidity and air
pressure can be controlled in this room according to the technology
requirements.