2 Jan in 21:00 By Vestnik Kavkaza
On January 9, 1882, in the town of Yevlakh (Azerbaijan), Pavel Florensky was born, who would later be called by his contemporaries Pascal of our time or Russian Leonardo da Vinci . His interests included not only philosophy and theology, but also mathematics, engineering, philology, history, poetry .
Everyone knows Father Pavel as a religious thinker, but not everyone remembers that first he graduated from the Physics and Mathematics of Moscow University, and only then from the Moscow Theological Academy, becoming a master of theology, professor of philosophy, professor of painting. At the same time, he worked as a mathematician, physicist, electronic engineer, astronomer, chemist, participated in the work on the GOELRO plan, edited the Technical Encyclopedia , wrote the books Imaginations in Geometry , Dielectrics and Their Technical Application . Moreover, Florensky did not stop his research activities even in exile: in Siberia he worke