Antonín Strnad

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Antonín Strnad (10 August 1746 – 23 September 1799) was a Czech geographer, professor and rector of the Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague and director of the observatory in Clementinum, founder of Czech scientific meteorology, agrometeorology and phenology, and also one of the founders of the Czech national revival. He began recording his meteorological observations in Clementinum and in 1775 he began the longest continuous series of observations in the world.

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