{"id":259,"date":"2025-08-02T13:26:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stjames.si\/it\/?p=259"},"modified":"2025-08-06T19:08:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:08:29","slug":"jurij-vega-1754-1802","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjames.si\/it\/2025\/08\/02\/jurij-vega-1754-1802\/","title":{"rendered":"Jurij Vega (1754\u20131802)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex wpbbe-3\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow wpbbe-1\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stjames.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/students_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-329\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Student of the Jesuit College at St. James\u2019s (1767\u20131773)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow wpbbe-2\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Eccellentissimi e potenti Signori!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u00a0La pi\u00f9 grande ricompensa per la mia opera matematica fino ad oggi<br>\u00a0la ricevo nel permesso che mi \u00e8 stato concesso di poter dichiarare pubblicamente<br>\u00a0che sono divenuto docente di alto livello presso il liceo di Lubiana.<br>\u00a0Per questo incarico rendo grazie unicamente alla nobile benevolenza di Vostra Altezza,<br>\u00a0che, sapendo apprezzare l\u2019istruzione e la scienza,<br>\u00a0ha saputo comunicarlo al mondo con slancio e dignit\u00e0.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>L\u2019ingresso in questa istituzione \u00e8 un impegno totale,<br>&nbsp;un\u2019adesione spirituale e fisica,<br>&nbsp;un atto di sincero amore verso la via della sapienza e della cultura nazionale.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Umilissimo servitore di Vostra Altezza,<br>Jurij barone Vega<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dedicato agli Stati carniolani \u2013 23 agosto 1800<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Jurij Vega nacque il 23 marzo 1754 a Zagorica presso Dolsko, in una povera famiglia contadina: suo padre Jernej era mezzadro e sua madre si chiamava Helena Vega.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nel 1767, all\u2019et\u00e0 di 13 anni, inizi\u00f2 a frequentare il corso inferiore gesuitico di sei anni (la \u201cginnasio\u201d) presso San Giacomo a Lubiana. Proprio durante il suo periodo di studi, i Gesuiti iniziarono a dare maggiore importanza, negli ultimi due anni umanistici, alle materie matematiche e scientifiche.<br>&nbsp;Oltre a matematica e scienze naturali, studi\u00f2 latino, greco, religione, tedesco, storia e geografia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All\u2019epoca, il ginnasio contava oltre 500 alunni e non prevedeva tasse scolastiche.<br>&nbsp;Uno dei suoi compagni di classe fu lo scrittore e storico Anton Toma\u017e Linhart, che frequent\u00f2 il ginnasio gesuitico tra il 1772 e il 1773.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dopo aver terminato il ginnasio, Vega inizi\u00f2 soltanto nel 1774 gli studi di filosofia e matematica (1774\u20131775), che concluse con ottimi risultati.<br>&nbsp;Dal 1775 al 1780 insegn\u00f2 logica e retorica presso il collegio nobiliare di San Sava a Lubiana, dove collabor\u00f2 anche con i professori Gruber e Golovec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dopo il servizio a Lubiana, il 7 aprile 1780 Vega si arruol\u00f2 nel corpo di artiglieria dell\u2019esercito imperiale a Vienna.<br>&nbsp;Durante il suo servizio militare scrisse un trattato in quattro volumi intitolato <em>Lezioni di Matematica<\/em> (<em>Vorlesungen \u00fcber die Mathematik<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Il 20 agosto 1789, Jurij Vega stabil\u00ec il record mondiale dell\u2019epoca nel calcolo del numero \u03c0, determinandolo fino alla 140\u00aa cifra decimale. Il suo record rimase imbattuto per 52 anni (fino al 1841), e le sue metodologie vengono citate ancora oggi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nel 1781 si batt\u00e9 per l\u2019introduzione del sistema metrico nella monarchia asburgica. Tuttavia, la sua proposta non fu accolta e il sistema venne introdotto soltanto pi\u00f9 tardi, nel 1871, sotto l\u2019imperatore Francesco Giuseppe I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nel 1794 fu pubblicata a Lipsia la sua opera pi\u00f9 importante: un tavolario di logaritmi intitolato <em>Tesoro di tutti i logaritmi<\/em> (<em>Thesaurus logarithmorum completus<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Per i suoi meriti, ricevette la pi\u00f9 alta onorificenza militare e, il 22 agosto 1800, gli fu conferito il titolo ereditario di barone, il diritto a un proprio stemma nobiliare e il grado di tenente colonnello.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mor\u00ec nel 1802 a Vienna; il suo corpo fu ritrovato annegato nel Danubio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nota:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dal 9 maggio 2001, l\u2019asteroide della fascia principale <em>14966<\/em> porta il nome Jurij Vega. \u00c8 stato scoperto il 30 luglio 1997 da Herman Miku\u017e presso l\u2019Osservatorio di \u010crni Vrh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student of the Jesuit College at St. James\u2019s (1767\u20131773)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students","category-2","description-off"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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