ПРИРОДНИЧА ОСВІТА МІХАЛА КШИШТОФА ГАНОВА У “ATHENAE GEDANENSES” ТА ПРИРОДНИЧОМУ ТОВАРИСТВІ

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M. Brodnicki, PhD of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of History of Science, Education and Education of the Institute of Pedagogy of the University of Gdansk, Vice-Rector of the European Institute in Sopot (Poland)Athenae Gedanenses was a leading center of academic philosophy in the Commonwealth from the mid-sixteenth to the nineteenth century. The scientific and didactic achievements of Gdansk professors in the field of nature education and practical philosophy throughout Europe were considered the main source of non-scholastic aristotelism initiated by Bartholomaus Keckermann and wolffianism, initiated by Hanow, whose textbooks have been read in most European universities.The undertaken research is still justified by incomplete knowledge of Michael Hanow’s scientific activity, which means that the formal description of the era of the foundations of modern pedagogy lacks this important chapter or is described very casually. It is worth noting that in addition to writing extensive natural science works or serious works in this field, Hanow also dealt with the promotion of this field. In addition, Hanow’s extensive scientific interests also included mathematics, with particular emphasis on geometry.Michael Christoph Hanow, an outstanding professor of natural science in Athens Gdansk and co-founder of the Life Sciences Society, published textbooks based on Christian Wolff’s famous compendiums, thus promoting a new, already Enlightenment way of presenting academic philosophy, covering various fields of knowledge. Thanks to Hanow, the name of Wolff and his textbooks on logic, metaphysics, mathematics and cosmology became in Gdansk about the mid-18th century a symbol and personification of new science and a generally scholastic attitude. Hanow treaties have become textbooks at many European universities.The work is accompanied by numerous quotations from thematic literature and is also based to a large extent on the queries already made and the author’s own research.Key words: Michael Christoph Hanow, Athenae Gedanenses, Natural Society, academic heritage of Gdansk of the 16th — 19th century.