The Emperor Leopold I appointed Kresa as confessor of his second son, the Archduke Charles.
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Jakub Kresa was born into a smallholder's family at Smržice, not far from Prostějov.
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Although the theories of Isaac Newton, Jacques Cassini and Edmond Halley were well known, local scientists (such as Josef Player or Jan Slezina) were continued to work with the obsolete theories of Ptolemaios and Aristoteles.
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