Josef Hoëné-Wronski

Josef Hoëné-Wronski (August 23rd 1776 - August 8th 1853) is a philosopher and scientific free-Polish.

Biography

Born Josef Hoëné in Wolsztyn in Poland, he is the son of the last architect of the king of Poland. He took part in the war for the independence of his country between 1791 and 1794 and was distinguished in particular at the time of the seat of Warsaw vis-a-vis the Prussian . It was however made prisoner with the battle of Maciejowice and was imprisoned 4 years. When it was released, it gained Germany where it began studies of right, philosophy and mathematics. It gained then the France or it worked with the Observatoire of Marseilles.

It was made naturalize French under the Directoire. In 1810 it settled with Paris, Maria, and adopted the name of Wronski. He spoke a great number of languages like Polish, French, Latin, the Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, the araméen, but not English. Its goal was a “Reform of the human knowledge” including/understanding as well the theory of the spontaneous movement as art to control. Like he says it in Prolégomènes of the Messianism :

“the object of this work is peremptorily to base the truth on the ground, to thus carry out absolute philosophy, to achieve the religion, to reform sciences, to explain the history, to discover the supreme goal of the States, to fix the absolute ends of the man and to reveal the destinies of the Nations. ”

Its first report on the bases of mathematics was published with Paris in 1810 but it was worth to him reserved the enough reports of Lacroix and Lagrange; Wronski stopped its relations with the Institute of Paris and made to Academy of Science of Paris a “enemy born of the truth”. It drew inter alia cross-country vehicles to compete with the railroads but those were never manufactured.

Wronski spent the years 1819 to 1822 to London. It came in England to try to obtain a reward of the Office of Longitudes but its instruments were retained by the Douanes at its entry in the country. It was found in a difficult financial position, but, after its instruments were turned over to him, it contacted the Office of Longitudes. Its work on longitudes contained only general information and hardly impressed. Not having succeeded in selling its industrial speculations, nor to make accept its ideas with the Academy of Science, it was obliged to borrow money to publish its philosophical ideas. But an abrupt bankruptcy of its banker put a term at the impression of its work during more than 30 years, except its Canon of the logarithms .

Concerning its scientific work, it mainly tried to apply the Philosophie to the Mathématiques, philosophy coming before the rigorous mathematical evidence. He criticized the use of infinite series of Lagrange and introduced his own idea of the development in series of a function. The coefficients of this series are determining now known under the name of wronskiens (name due to Muir, 1882). He worked much on the determinants and developed allowing a method, for all Polynôme, to extract the polynomial of which all the roots are inside the disc unit, method known under the name of method of Wronski and based on the functions of Schur. In 1812 it published a work claiming to prove that any equation has an algebraic solution, result contradicting work of Paolo Ruffini already published. The work of Wronski, although naturally forgery, had nevertheless important applications. Its book Introduction to a course of mathematics was published in London in 1821. He died in 1853 with Neuilly, close to Paris.

During years, work of Wronski was regarded as useless. However a thorough recent examination of its work proves, even if a part are false and if it had a very high opinion of itself and its ideas, a great mathematical perspicacity and a secrecy genius.

See too

Eliphas Lévi

List works of Hoëné Wronski

the 1800 Polish Bomber *1803 critical Philosophy, founded on the first principle of the human knowledge
1811 Introduction to philosophy of mathematics and technie of the algorithmy
1812 general Resolution of the equations of all the degrees
1812 Refutation of the Theory of the analytical functions of Lagrange
1814 Philosophy of infinite the
1815 Philosophy of algorithmic Technie, section 1
1816 Philosophy of algorithmic Technie, section 2
1818 Introduction to the Sphinx
Dec. 1818: The Sphinx or Nomothétique séhélienne 1
1819 janv.: The Sphinx or Nomothétique séhélienne 2
1819 Critical of the Theory of the generating functions of Laplace
1821 with a course of mathematics (in English)
1827 Canon of the Logarithms, where are given the solution of the equation of the fifth degree
1829 Fundamental problems of the modern policy: Steam engines
1831 Leaflets of the Messianism
1831 Preamble of the Messianism; Revelation of the destinies of teleological humanity
1833 Law of the Chance, as bases Reform of the Probability theory
1834-35 New system of the steam engines, containing the new laws of Physics
1837 Rails mobile or moving railroads
1838 Petition with the two legislative Rooms of France on the cruelty of the Railroads and on the reform of the locomotion

Supplique with the King of the French
Avis with the engineers, and results of the experiments

1840

Messianic Métapolitique or absolute philosophy of the policy
Tableau of the Philosophy of the History
Tableau of the Philosophy of the policy
Secret policy of Napoleon, as bases moral future of the world
the Napoléonisme forgery like disastrous interpretation of the Napoleonean ideas
historical Prospectus on the scientific reform of the locomotion

1842

Introduction to a report on the scientific solution of the locomotion
nautical Application of the new theory of the tides
Caméralistique. Political economy and finances

the 1842-3 destiny of France, Germany and Russia like Prolégomènes of the Messianism
1844 Urgent reform of the Railroads and all the terrestrial locomotion
1847 Addresses to the Slavic nations
1847 Messianism or absolute Reform of the human knowledge I (Mathematics)
1848 Réforme human knowledge II (Philosophy)
1848 Réforme human knowledge III (general and final Resolution of the equations of all the degrees)
1848 Adresse to the nations civilized on their disaster revolutionary disorder, like continuation of the Reform of the human knowledge
1848 Epistle at S.A. prince Czaroryski, on destinies of Poland and generally on the destiny of the Slavic nations
1848 Supplement with this Epistle, to be used as opinion with the two scientific classes of the Institute of France
the 1850 Hundred decisive pages, for S.M. the Emperor of Russia, with their Supplement separated for the dynasty from Napoleon
1851

Epistle with S.M. the Emperor from Russia, offering the final explanation of the Universe, physics and moral
Epistle secret at S.A. prince Louis-Napoleon, president of the Republic
Achievement of the Reform of the Celestial mechanics, giving the laws of the general construction of the whole Universe
Supplement to this Epistle, containing new nautical science of the tides
historical Document (secret) on the revelation of the destinies of the world

1852 absolute Philosophy of the History or Genesis of humanity
Historiography, 2 vol.
scientific Reform of the terrestrial Locomotion
scientific Document
1853 True nautical science of the tides

Posthumous

1855 Messianic Propaedeutics, in two parts (1875)
1861 progressive Development and final goal of the humanity
1876 Indisputable Messianic or treated Knowledge-supreme
1878 Development of absolute Philosophy
1879 Seven new manuscripts, written of 1803 to 1806
1881 Messianic Nomothétique or supreme Laws of the World

(Source: Francis Warrain, the Work of Hoëné Wronski, 3 volumes published out of 6 envisaged, editions Véga 1933,1936 and 1938.)

External bonds

http://kingsgarden.org/French/Organisations.F/OM.F/Wronski/Wronski.html biographical note and bibliographical database
bibliographical http://www.textesrares.com/philo19/interrogation.php4?nom_aut=Wronski database
Mac Tutor History
the Messianic thought in France: of Wronski with Esquiros
Works of Hoëné-Wromski digitized by the SICD of the universities of Strasbourg

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