O SENJANINU IVANU PASKVIĆU I NJEGOVIM RADOVIMA IZ MEHANIKE

U ovom se članku daje kratki osvrt na život i djelo malo proučenog ali važnog hrvatskog znanstvenika druge polovice 18. i početka 19. stoljeća Ivana Paskvića koji potječe iz Senja. Djelovao je u znanstveno važnim središtima Austrougarske monarhije: Budimu, Pešti, Beču, a surađivao je s poznatim europskim znanstvenicima. Bio je profesor više matematike na Sveučilištu u Pešti, a osnovao je budimsku zvjezdarnicu. Posebno se bavio teorijom strojeva. U drugom, znanstveno plodnijem, razdoblju bavio se astronomijom i višom geodezijom.This article gives an outline of the life and work of Ivan Paskvić from Senj, an insufficiently known but important Croatian scientist from the second half of the 75th and the beginning of the 79th centuries. He taught in the scientific ially most important centres of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire: Budapest and Vienna, and collaborated with prominent European scientists of that time. He was professor of higher mathematics at the University of Pest and was the founder of the observatory in Buda. He was particularly interested in mechanics. In the second, more fruit ful period of his research he worked in the field of astronomy and higher geodesy