Re: Re: Re: VMs: Argentina...and Moretus

["jan" <hurychj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello  
  
  
=======  You wrote:  

>Don't underestimate the local historians. If there
>were a chance to find something, they would have
>gone for it. When I was in Prague in September, I
>actually mentioned this story to one of the people
>I met there (his field is history of astronomy)
>and he just responded (with a big smile) that 
>there are lots of rumours and lots of underground
>spaces. 

Right, I already said it was only a legend. And there is really a lot of underground spaces in Prague, 
some of them not yet thoroughly investigated. One  thing surprised me however: I 
 always thought that historians work mostly with rumors.  And the rumor
 confirmed from several places is then called a "fact" :-).

One of his colleagues later showed some
>slides of the damage done to some archives by the
>flooding of the Moldau about a year ago.

Yes,  they should have relocated them to Strahov, on the hill, long tiem ago.
As  we can see, one have to take in account even the possiblity of the so called  200  year flood,
as that one was called. 

>
>Some decades ago, the Marci expert Zdenek Servit
>got permission to search for Marci's grave in the 
>celler of the St.Salvator church. He went down
>into what was supposed to be the crypt with a
>couple of colleaugues (I spoke with Dr.Smolka
>who was one of them), but they found nothing except
>some WW.II guns and a few bones. No coffins,
>no inscriptions, no names.

Right again; we know pretty well how difficult is to find anything
after several centuries. After all, we still  do not know which grave
in that Dutch church belongs to great Comenius.
 
regards,

Jan 
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