Venue

The conference has taken place in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic situated on both banks of the Vltava River.

The conference venue was Carolinum placed right in the historical heart of the town, at one of the most beautiful spots just a few steps from the Old Town Square.

Prague has over one million inhabitants. The dominant feature of the city is Prague Castle, which houses the gothic St. Vitus Cathedral. The castle had been the seat of Czech kings since 1087. In 1918 it became the seat of presidents of the Czechoslovak Republic and, since 1993, of the president of the Czech Republic. Prague hosts one of the oldest universities in Europe: Charles University was founded in 1348.

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Prague has a designated UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage area of more than eight square kilometers, many theatres, concert halls and galleries. Numerous personalities have lived in Prague: Charles IV and Rudolph II; Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler; Christian Doppler and Ernst Mach; John Amos Comenius and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Albert Einstein.

Read about history of astronomy, mathematics and physics in and around Prague – text by Dr. Martin Solc (with kind permission).

"Mr Doppler talked about a wonderful phenomenon of the coloured light of the double stars and some other stars in the sky. He sought the explanation of this striking phenomenon by formulating a new theory which included as an integral part the theory of Bradley."

Minutes of the session of Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences which took part in the Patriotic Hall of the Prague Carolinum on 25th May 1842