Holanďan Christiaan Huygens významně přispěl k rozvoji mechaniky a optiky v návaznosti na problémy, které řešila astronomie. Je vynálezcem kyvadlových hodin, nejpřesnějšího časoměrného přístroje doby umožňujícího poprvé stanovení zeměpisné délky plujících lodí., The article deals with the life and work of Dutch astronomer, physicist and mathematician Christiaan Huygens. Describing his extensive scientific work, we start with his activities in the field of observational astronomy (e.g. the discovery of the rings and moon of Saturn and the summary of the existing knowledge of the planets in his publication Cosmotheoros). His discovery and quantitative description of centrifugal force contributed significantly to solving problems describes in Newton´s Principia. Huygens is also well-known as a technician and technical designer. He constructed the first pendulum clocks. Last but not least, we describe his work on the impact of solid bodies, when he reflected on the work of R. Descartes and J. Marek Marci., František Jáchim., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
We present an interview with Professor Pavel Spunar, who is a renowned Czech paleographer, codicologist and historiographer of the Latin Middle Ages. Professor Pavel Spunar is a member of Learned Society of the Czech Republic, Comité international de paléographie latine (Paris), Centre international de codicologie (Bruxelles) and Comité international des institutions et de la communication intellectuelle au Moyen Age (den Haag). and Sylva Daníčková.