Editing Jurij Vega (section)

==Early life==
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Born into a farmer's family<ref>Šuman, Josef; Simonič, Franz. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uZkJAAAAIAAJ&q=Georg+Vega ''Die Völker Oesterreich-ungarns. Ethnographische und culturhistorische Schilderungen''], Vol. 10, K. Prochaska Press, 1881, p. 182: "Der Bauernsohn Georg Vega, geboren 1754 zu Zagoric in der Moräutscher Pfarre (Moravče), betrat unter Kaiser Josef seine Ruhmesbahn."</ref> in the small village of [[Zagorica pri Dolskem|Zagorica]], east of [[Ljubljana]] in present-day [[Slovenia]], Jurij Vega was six years old when his father, Jernej Veha, died.

He was first educated in Moravče and then attended high school for six years (1767–1773) at the [[Jesuit]] College in Ljubljana (''{{Interlanguage link|Jezuitski kolegij v Ljubljani|sl}}''), where he studied Latin, [[Ancient Greek|Greek]], [[religion]], German, [[history]], [[geography]], [[science]], and [[mathematics]]. At the time, the college had around 500 students. He was a schoolmate of [[Anton Tomaž Linhart]], the Slovenian writer and historian.

Vega completed high school in 1773 at the age of 19. Afterward, he studied at the [[Lyceum]] of Ljubljana (''Licej v Ljubljani'') and became a navigational engineer in 1775. A copy of his ''Tentamen philosophicum''—a list of questions for his comprehensive examination—has been preserved and is housed in the Mathematical Library in Ljubljana. The problems include topics in [[logic]], [[algebra]], [[metaphysics]], [[geometry]], [[trigonometry]], [[geodesy]], [[stereometry]], the [[geometry]] of [[curve]]s, [[ballistics]], and general and special [[physics]].