Anton Ambschel (Ambschl, Ambschell, Ambšl) (1 December 1746 in

Cerknica Cerknica (; , ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 120.) is a town in the Karst region of southwestern Slovenia, with a population of 4,0 ...

– 14 July 1821 in

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) was a

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and

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. Anton Ambschel besides Jakob Štelin, Martin Kuralt and

Franz Samuel Karpe Franz Samuel Karpe, , (17 November 1747 – 4 September 1806) was a Slovenian philosopher and rector of University of Olomouc. Biography Karpe was born in Kranj, Carniola (nowadays Slovenia), to a townsman's family. His parents died soon and sub ...

presents a group of Slovene

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from the 17. and the 18. century. He was writing in Latin and later German. In year 1678 he entered the

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. Between years 1773 and 1785 he worked as a public and full professor of physics on Jesuits board in Ljubljana. Till 1785 he was also board chancellor. He was later dismissed. Till 1803 he was working as a professor of physics and mechanics at the University of Vienna. He was a member of Academia Operosorum Labacensium. Even though he was a physicist, his main work in German, ''Anfangsgruende der allgemeinen auf Erscheinungen und Versuche gebauten Naturlehre I-VI'' was established via Liebniz-Wolff rationalism. With this book, he renounced his scholasticism. In this book he established nature empirically and physics was literary for describing effects between bodies.

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