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From Bošković's fundamental theory in natural philosophy to generic technical innovations of Tesla

KAROLJ SKALA ; Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI), Centre for Informatics and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia
TOMISLAV PETKOVIĆ orcid.org/0000-0001-6596-8950 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER), Department of Applied Physics, Zagreb, Croatia
MLADEN MARTINIS ; Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI), Zagreb, Croatia

Sažetak

A plethora of scientists gave their invaluable contribution to evolution of knowledge and technology. Among them, Ruđer Bošković and Nikola Tesla are unique and exceptional due to their scientific originality in comprehending basic laws and concepts of nature and a great number of fundamentally original visions in science and technology. Their scientific and technological ideas and innovations used to seem persistently applied for which mankind owes them a debt of gratitude. Ruđer Bošković, a great scientist and philosopher, wrote works and opuscules in philosophy of nature, mathematics, physics and technique areas in his books, which in turn inspired and stirred an intuition of another great scientific innovator – Nikola Tesla. The two gifted, top-notch intellectuals may form a synergy despite the fact that the time distance between them spanned one and a half centuries. A synergy drew over the natural science and technique, inspired a genuine vortices towards a new visions in the mind and spirit of Nikola Tesla whose technical achievements enabled a new civilisation breakthrough.
Paper aims to establish for the first time scientific-philosophical-engineering reflections and symbiosis on the work and thinking of Bošković and Tesla, discussing an epistemic foundations of the coupling between two exceptional minds.

Ključne riječi

Ruđer Josip Bošković; Nikola Tesla; synergy Bošković-Tesla; Tesla’s legacy; Tesla’s intuition; Tesla’s achievements; electromagnetism; Tesla’s patents; wireless energy transport; Tesla’s ēthos, Universal Peace; science and ethics; controversies in Tesla’s legacy; Tesla’s cosmopolitanism; Tesla and Vedic science; philosophy of nature; points; particle physics; unification; Ivan Meštrović; pair of sculptures Bošković-Tesla

Hrčak ID:

101210

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/101210

Datum izdavanja:

31.3.2013.

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