Yuri Drohobych and his “Prognostic assessment of the current 1483 year”
On February 7, 1483, in the Roman printing house of Euharii Zilber, Yuri Drohobych published his first book, The Predictive Assessment of the Current 1483. This 19-page work was dedicated to Pope Sixtus IV. Based on the analysis of the relative position of the celestial bodies, the estimates of various astronomical phenomena and the zodiacal calendar, an attempt was made to predict earthly events.
Despite the astrological nature of the work, Drohobych gave accurate predictions of two lunar eclipses, the phases of the moon, indicated that the geographical position of the observer was important in determining the position of the sun and planets. He for the first time, though inaccurately, indicated the coordinates of a number of cities in Poland, Lithuania and Western Ukraine.
One of the most important aspects of this treatise was the author’s vision that the world is not an abstract concept and people are able to study its laws and laws. Two copies of the book of Drohobych, which are stored in the libraries of the Jagiellonian and Tübingen universities, have reached our time.
In 1486, Yuri Drohobych returned to Krakow, where a year later he became a professor in the department of medicine at a local university and lectured when Nikolai Copernicus studied at Jagiellonian University. Later - the dean of the Faculty of Medicine and the Leib-Medic of King Casimir IV Jagiellon.
In 1491, with the participation of Yuri Drohobych, the Kraków printer Fiol Schweipolt issued the first books in the Church Slavonic language Osmoglasnik, Hour Book and Triodis, which were reprinted in the next few centuries in Kiev and Lviv.
Despite the astrological nature of the work, Drohobych gave accurate predictions of two lunar eclipses, the phases of the moon, indicated that the geographical position of the observer was important in determining the position of the sun and planets. He for the first time, though inaccurately, indicated the coordinates of a number of cities in Poland, Lithuania and Western Ukraine.
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One of the most important aspects of this treatise was the author’s vision that the world is not an abstract concept and people are able to study its laws and laws. Two copies of the book of Drohobych, which are stored in the libraries of the Jagiellonian and Tübingen universities, have reached our time.
In 1486, Yuri Drohobych returned to Krakow, where a year later he became a professor in the department of medicine at a local university and lectured when Nikolai Copernicus studied at Jagiellonian University. Later - the dean of the Faculty of Medicine and the Leib-Medic of King Casimir IV Jagiellon.
In 1491, with the participation of Yuri Drohobych, the Kraków printer Fiol Schweipolt issued the first books in the Church Slavonic language Osmoglasnik, Hour Book and Triodis, which were reprinted in the next few centuries in Kiev and Lviv.
