He authored Introduction to imaginescopy[1] in the form of a satirical treatise, the fictitious methodology and stylization of which were used by readers in various practical and theoretical applications.

The author's professional experience as a scientist and sociologist is reflected in the humorous scientific text, which is compared to the works of leading representatives of similar prose genres.

In 1970, based on his dissertation Non-agricultural work as a factor of change in the farm and peasant family of Podhale, he obtained a doctorate in agricultural sciences and was employed as an assistant professor.

[2] He authored a frequently reissued academic textbook on rural sociology[12] and two monographs analyzing non-agricultural work in peasant families in the Podhale region.

[19] He noted that despite the visible civilizational progress in rural areas at the beginning of the 21st century and household equipment comparable to urban areas, a large part of rural youth – unlike their parents' generation – critically assesses the countryside as a place to live and expresses professional aspirations associated with urban and non-agricultural sectors of the economy.

[23] Based on survey research conducted in 2000 in the voivodeships of Lesser Poland and Subcarpathia, he proposed solutions for creating alternative job opportunities to agriculture.

[25][26] He demonstrated that at the end of the 20th century, two-thirds of respondents in Lesser Poland perceived environmental degradation in rural areas mainly due to deforestation, wild landfills, progressive land development, and unattractive architecture.

[29] Since 1997, he was a member of the editorial board of Krakowskie Studia Małopolskie and since 2002 of the quarterly journal of the Polish Academy of Sciences Wieś i Rolnictwo [pl].

[4] He supervised three doctoral dissertations in Algeria and three in Poland, the last of which was conducted at the Institute for Rural Development and Agriculture of the Polish Academy of Sciences [pl] in 2005.

[40][41] The author provided a description of imaginescopy: The immediate means, stimulating the imagination through the sense of sight, and thus imaginescope – is any perforation perforating any solid substance to the end that through its orifice one might conduct perhaps one straight line.Imaginescopy is a method of expanding imagination,[42][43] the strengthening of which depends on the type of imaginescope used and its hypothetical technical parameters, which the book analyzes in a scientific style.

The relationship between fiction and authenticity of these definitions and descriptions is complex, and "the separation of their scopes ceases to be solely a matter of simple assessment".

He created absolutely reliable three pendoptic theses of grandfather Stopka: Thesis I: – hy, gmy idom dołu, pijom wode ... Bedzie loć!

Thesis III: – hy, gmy ni ma... Bedzie loć!In 1979, Jerzy Kmita [pl], a philosopher and cultural theorist, compared the message of the Introduction to imaginescopy with the anti-positivist theses of Wilhelm Dilthey.

[47] In the same year, Jerzy Pomorski pointed out the identity of Stanisław Moskal and Śledź Otrembus Podgrobelski, as well as the similarity of Podhale topics and interest in highland culture, including language, between Moskal's doctoral work and his Introduction to imaginescopy, which he called "a great Parkinsonian joke" and "a form of self-control rarely practiced by scientists today, to exaggerate slightly".

However, despite its beneficial enhancement of the imagination, applied imaginescopy can have the negative effect of spreading misleading information and disrupting the development of artificial intelligence.

[33] The usefulness of imaginescopy in assessing poetry dealing with fundamental issues was also noted,[67] considering the "threshold of social intolerance in the case of overly extravagant imagination".

[77] Its usefulness in film adaptations of non-literary materials was noted, as imaginescopy represents a "metaphor for science fiction" and also focuses on the "relationships between the future, humans, and technology".

[85] The fictional habilitation thesis of the "famous Śledź Otrembus Podgrobelski can teach us better than anything else what a scholarly style is and how, in striving to achieve it, not to make oneself too ridiculous".

[87] The choral group of the tourist song "Society for Enlarging Imagination in the Name of Apollon Hytz" was formed in Choszczno in 2002 and received several artistic awards.

[92] A natural specimen of the imaginescope "Jabcon" from a fragment of a thousand-year-old sequoia was found in 1999 in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park in northern California.

[77] The need for using imaginescopy and various ways to expand imagination by university students was demonstrated in discussions on anthropological and archaeological topics based on Śledź's text.

[45] Imaginescopy, with its conceptual arsenal and inflated institutional life, still serves as a cipher by which supporters of higher humor recognize each other.Nature as perceived by the imaginescope is ‘the best doctor of our bodies and souls’.

[120] In 2019, the use of imaginescope principles was noted in outdoor spatial installations by sculptor Mauro Staccioli, exhibited on hills around the town of Volterra in Tuscany.

[121] The statement by Jeremiasz Apollon Hytz that "By multiplying anything, we enlarge reality, which begins to surpass imagination"[122] also served as inspiration for a carpenter-artist who, in the second decade of the 21st century in Stare Kawkowo in Warmia, runs an applied arts gallery offering various portable imaginescopes.

[142] The author spent his student summer months with his uncle Władysław, which provided an opportunity for numerous hikes and getting to know the atmosphere of the Beskid countryside.

[145] The author takes the reader through the stages and places of his life, often exotic, from the perspective of a scientist with international experience, to whom "fate designated Polishness as the soil of his roots".

[146] "For Śledź, the mountains and sails become a religion, travel, movement, (...) and the world of general concepts and written with capital letters values and rules is thrown into the cabaret, into the domain of wit and mockery".

[149] The atmosphere of Betlejemka, in the political and social conditions of that time, greatly contributed to the creation of the satirical concept of imaginescopy and the character of Jeremiasz Apollon Hytz.

During the 7th National Tourist Song Fair [pl] in Szklarska Poręba in 1974, the bureau promoted "an optimistic view of the world using a device called the persight-imaginoscope".

[13][14] When he began work on the Introduction to imaginescopy, later called a "cult outlaw book", he was a sociology student after completing agricultural studies and with international professional experience.