Coorganizing the Annual Conference of the Institute of Philosophy: Croatian Philosophy – Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Journal Contributions to the Research of Croatian Philosophical Heritage

The HNNH team members, Jan Makovský and Tomáš Nejeschleba, and the invited speaker Luca Guzzardi, participated at the international conference Croatian Philosophy: Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Journal Contributions to the Research of Croatian Philosophical Heritage with topics related to the subjects of investigation of the NHHN project.

During the conference, the speakers presented the following research:

• • • Luca Guzzardi examined the intellectual lineage connecting R. J. Boscovich to the Jesuit mathematical tradition. He demonstrated how Boscovich used mathematics to organize observations without making ontological commitments, ultimately treating scientific models as instruments for structuring experience rather than exact reflections of physical reality.
    • Jan Makovský focused on early modern attempts to reconstruct the Earth’s history, using Leibniz’s geographia naturalis as a key example. His presentation explored how political and national agendas drove these early geological narratives, treating terrestrial formations as historical monuments.
    • Tomáš Nejeschleba discussed the 16th-century European reception of the “Turkish prophecy” originally published by Bartul Đurđević. He analyzed the work of the Czech polymath Thaddaeus Hagecius, who interpreted the cryptic text using a combination of astrological and Pythagorean methods.