For example, a great-grandfather of Ijon Tichy — a character from a cycle of Stanisław Lem's science fiction stories of the 1960s — was known to work on the " General Theory of Everything ".

For example, a great-grandfather of Ijon Tichy, a character from a cycle of Stanisław Lem's science fiction stories of the 1960s, was known to work on the " General Theory of Everything ".

* Solaris book page on Stanisław Lem's official site

* Stanisław Lem's essay on Solaris, ibid.

* Strider, a giant mecha ( walking vehicle ) in Stanisław Lem's 1987 novel Fiasco

* Regis III — A planet populated by evolving machines in Stanisław Lem's novel The Invincible.

* Lunar Efficient Missionary, a fictional space ship in Stanisław Lem's novel Peace on Earth

But unlike in Stanisław Lem's Solaris, all these are supposed to be fundamentally similar in the long run, since all are governed by the same Darwinian and Marxist laws of development.

* Stanisław Lem's Love and Tensor Algebra

* The Cyberiad book page on Stanisław Lem's official site

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* In Stanisław Lem's book Astronauci ( The Astronauts ) ( 1951 ) it is a post-apocalyptic dead world ( see film section for details ).

In this co-production East Germany-Poland, based on Stanisław Lem's book Astronauci ( The Astronauts ), it is discovered that the Tunguska Event in 1908 was the crash of a spaceship from Venus, and a multi-national crew is sent to the planet.

Popescu translated Stanisław Lem's novels Manuscript Found in a Bathtub, Return from the Stars, as well as Norman Spinrad's Bug Jack Barron ( in collaboration with Dan Mihai Pavelescu ).

Examples of the mutual inscrutability and the potentially unbridgeable gaps between races which — by their very natures — are just too different to bond or even to accept each other, include Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence concept of the dark matter photino birds, the god-like Firstborn from Arthur C. Clarke's Time Odyssey series, and Stanisław Lem's planet Solaris and the events of the novel Fiasco.

Oxyliquit explosive was prepared ad hoc from sugar and an oxygen bottle to blast a hole in a collapsed cave in Stanisław Lem's 1951 novel Astronauts.

Count Napoleon Stanisław Adam Ludwig Zygmunt Krasiński (; 19 February 1812 – 23 February 1859 ), a Polish nobleman, is traditionally ranked with Mickiewicz and Słowacki as one of Poland's Three National Bards — the trio of great Romantic poets who influenced national consciousness during the period of Poland's political bondage.

Three sons of Mikołaj " the Black ", Mikołaj Krzysztof " Sierotka ", Albrycht, and Stanisław " the Pious ", are said to be the progenitors of the three smaller branches.

* Peter Estenberg ( 1686 – 1740 ), Greek Scholar, Professor, and advisor to King Stanislaw ( Stanisław Leszczyński ) of Poland in the early 18th century.

Former Polish King Stanisław Leszczyński hoped to be elected king once again upon the death of his old adversary, Augustus II of Saxony, who had failed in his attempts to make the Polish crown hereditary within his family.

Thirty years earlier, Stanisław had been installed as king of Poland by King Charles XII of Sweden during his period of dominance in the early part of the Great Northern War, and was ousted following the Battle of Poltava by the victorious Russians.

Stanisław was supported in his bid to regain the throne by his son-in-law, King Louis XV of France, who hoped to renew France's traditional alliance with Poland as a way to balance Russian and Austrian power in northern and eastern Europe.

In 1732 Empress Anna of Russia, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and King Frederick William I of Prussia, irritated with Augustus but unwilling to allow Stanisław to become king, secretly signed Löwenwolde's Treaty, in which they agreed to jointly back the candidacy of Infante Manuel of Portugal for the Polish throne.

* September 7 – Stanisław August Poniatowski is elected as the King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Stanisław ze Szczepanowa ) by Polish King Bolesław II the Bold

After having occupied their respective territories, the three partitioning powers demanded that King Stanisław and the Sejm approve their action.

Louis XV of France demanded that Maria Theresa's fiancé surrender his ancestral Duchy of Lorraine to accommodate his father-in-law, Stanisław Leszczyński, who had been deposed as King of Poland.

In 1737, after the War of the Polish Succession, Lorraine was part of an agreement between France, the House of Habsburg and the Lorraine House of Vaudémont: The Duchy was given to Stanisław Leszczyński, the former king of Poland and father-in-law to King Louis XV of France, who despite French support had lost out to a candidate backed by Russia and Austria in the War of the Polish Succession.

Returning to Poland, Krasicki became secretary to the Primate of Poland and developed a friendship with future King Stanisław August Poniatowski.

Krasicki was honored by Poland's King Stanisław August Poniatowski with the Order of the White Eagle and the Order of Saint Stanisław, as well as with a special 1780 medal featuring the Latin device, " Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori " (" The Muse will not let perish, men who are deserving of glory "); and by Prussia's King Frederick the Great, with the Order of the Red Eagle.

Sigismund, supported by Zamoyski and the former king's wife, Anna Jagiellon, was elected King of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth on 19 August 1587 and recognized as such by the interrex, the Primate of Poland, Stanisław Karnkowski.

Eventually, the 21-year-old Marie Leszczyńska, daughter of Stanisław Leszczyński, the deposed King of Poland, was chosen.

By the Treaty of Vienna ( November 1738 ), Stanisław was compensated for the loss of his Polish throne with the duchy of Lorraine, which would eventually pass to King Louis as his son-in-law, while Duke Francis III of Lorraine was made heir to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany as compensation for the loss of Lorraine.

Following the monetary reform carried out by King Stanisław August Poniatowski, the złoty became Poland's official currency and the exchange rate of 1 złoty to 30 groszy was confirmed.

The name of Louis was bestowed because it was typical of a Prince of France ; Stanislas after his great-grandfather King Stanisław Leszczyński of Poland ; and Xavier for Saint Francis Xavier, whom his mother's family held as one of their patron saints.

In 1774 he was invited by King Stanisław August Poniatowski of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to help organize that country ’ s educational system.

In 1765 Poland's King Stanisław August Poniatowski created a Corps of Cadets (), on the grounds of what is now Warsaw University, to educate military officers and government officials.

In 1768 a civil war arose in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, when the Bar Confederation sought to depose King Stanisław August Poniatowski.

On August 1, 1792, King Stanisław August promoted him to Lieutenant General.

In mathematics, the Borsuk – Ulam theorem, named after Stanisław Ulam and Karol Borsuk, states that every continuous function from an n-sphere into Euclidean n-space maps some pair of antipodal points to the same point.

On May 12, 1926, Piłsudski, prompted by mutinous units seeking his leadership and intent on preventing the three-time prime minister Wincenty Witos of the peasant Polish People's Party from forming another coalition, staged a military overthrow of the Polish government, confronting President Stanisław Wojciechowski and overpowering the troops loyal to him.

Modernist works from writers like Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, and Stanisław Lem have focused on speculative or existential perspectives on contemporary reality and are on the borderline between SF and the mainstream.

The faculties of astronomy, law and theology attracted eminent scholars: for example, John Cantius, Stanisław of Skarbimierz, Paweł Włodkowic, Jan of Głogów, and Albert Brudzewski, who from 1491 to 1495 was one of Nicolaus Copernicus's teachers.

Stanisław Jankowski (" Agaton ") from Batalion Pięść, 1 August 1944: " W-hour " ( 17: 00 )

In addition to attempting to restore his father-in-law Stanisław Leszczyński to the Polish throne, the king also hoped to wrest the long-coveted duchy of Lorraine from its duke, Francis III.

In Polish Silesia Catholic Church authorities lead by bishop Stanisław Adamski and with agreement from Polish Government in Exile advised Poles to sign up to the Volksliste in order to avoid atrocities and mass murder that happened in other parts of the country

During the Polish Defensive War of 1939, the main portion of the defenders of Westerplatte as well as the armoured brigade of General Stanisław Maczek were either from Kielce or from its close suburbs.

* The daring escape from jail in Kielce of a dozen or so AK members, organised in November 1942 by Stanisław Depczyński.

Other current or former members of the Polish national glider aerobatics team from Aeroclub ROW are Małgorzata Margańska, Krzysztof Brzikalik, Lucjan Fizia, Stanisław Makula and Ireneusz Boczkowski.

Shortly thereafter, in early September, 1980, he was replaced as party leader by Stanisław Kania and removed from power.

novel from 1987 by Stanisław Lem that deals with clashes of

During the period of Enlightenment in Poland he was written about by poets and writers such as Stanisław Potocki, Franciszek Karpiński, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz and Franciszek Ksawery Dmowski, and a biography by Michał Krajewski, cementing his legend of a hero rescuing Poland from anarchy and invasion, a legend that became even stronger during the times of the partitions of Poland in the 19th century, where the artists of the Polish romanticism period used him as a symbol of patriotism, and a reminder of military successes.

By early September he had gathered a group of mathematicians from Warsaw University and Lwów University ( most notably, founders of the Polish School of Mathematics — Stanisław Leśniewski, Stefan Mazurkiewicz and Wacław Sierpiński ), who were also able to break Russian ciphers.

A new wave of strikes undermined Gierek's government, and in September Gierek, who was in poor health, was finally removed from office and replaced as Party leader by Stanisław Kania.

* Stanisław Grzesiuk, Polish writer, poet and singer, in Dachau from 4 April 1940, later transferred to Mauthausen-Gusen complex

Beside the university educated people there were commoners like Waleria Malaczewska, Antonina Roguska, Jadwiga Leszczanin, Zofia Dębicka *, tailor Stanisław Michalski, farmers Kajszczak from Łomianki and Paweł Harmuszko, laborer Kazimierz Kuc and many others.

On his way to St. Petersburg, however, Bellotto accepted an invitation in 1764 from Poland's newly elected King Stanisław August Poniatowski to become his court painter in Warsaw.

Among Salonen's compositions are ... auf den ersten blick und ohne zu wissen ... ( 1980, a saxophone concerto with a title taken from Franz Kafka's The Trial ), Floof for soprano and ensemble ( 1982, on texts by Stanisław Lem ) and the orchestral L. A. Variations ( 1996 ).

Stanisław Leśniewski coined " mereology " in 1927, from the Greek word μέρος ( méros, " part "), to refer to a formal theory of part-whole he devised in a series of highly technical papers published between 1916 and 1931, and translated in Leśniewski ( 1992 ).

He then walked on foot from the royal Wawel Castle to the Basilica of St. Stanisław, patron saint of Poland.