Higher geodesic education in Lviv until 1880 (chronology of the prehistory of the Department of Geodesy of the Lviv Polytechnic)

Abstract

The events of the emergence and development of higher geodetic education in Lviv are described in chronological order, starting from the establishment of the Department of Mathematics at the Lviv (Jesuit) Academy in 1744, where practical geometry was then taught, to the establishment of the Department of Geodesy and Spherical Astronomy at the Lviv Polytechnic in 1871 .and the opening of an astronomical observatory at it in 1880. The contribution to the development of education and science by the brightest representatives of the teaching staff of various nationalities is described, and the drawings of the textbooks prepared by them are given