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Laurence Moulinier-Brogi; Marilyn Nicoud, eds. Écritures médicales. Discours et genres, de la tradition antique à l’époque moderne. Lyon-Avignon: CIH…
2020
Ciencia en las aulas: actores, espacios, prácticas pedagógicas y cultura material de la enseñanza de las ciencias en España durante el primer tercio …
2020
Reseña-ensayo de:Leoncio López-Ocón Cabrera, Víctor Guijarro Mora, Mario Pedrazuela Fuentes, eds. Aulas abiertas. Profesores viajeros y renovación de la enseñanza secundaria en los países ibéricos (1900-1936). Madrid: Dykinson; 2018, 561 p. ISBN: 978-84-9148-915-3. Acceso abierto. Encarnación Martínez Alfaro, Leoncio López-Ocón Cabrera, Gabriela Ossenbach Sauter, eds. Ciencia e innovación en las aulas: centenario del Instituto-Escuela (1918-1939). Madrid: UNED-CSIC; 2018, 426 p. ISBN: 978-84-0010-401-6. 50,00€. Víctor Guijarro Mora. Artefactos y acción educativa. La cultura del objeto científico en la enseñanza secundaria en España (1845-1930). Madrid: Dykinson; 2018, 273 p. ISBN: 978-84-91…
José María López Piñero y la conservación y difusión del patrimonio histórico-médico
2011
MOTILITY OF MYCOPLASMAS
1973
A Review of: “Jürgen Peiffer.Hirnforschung in Deutschland 1849 bis 1974. Briefe zur Entwicklung von Psychiatrie und Neurowissenschaften sowie zum Ein…
2006
A married couple of mathematicians from Vienna remembers Sigmund Freud (1953)
2023
Argument The paper is based on a hitherto unexplored document (audiotape of an interview accompanied by a German transcript) from 1953, located in the Freud Papers at the Library of Congress. It contributes to a better understanding of the impact of Freud and of Psychoanalysis on personalities from the exact sciences, here represented by the noted applied mathematicians Richard von Mises and Hilda Geiringer from Vienna. The detailed discussion of the interview sheds some new light on the different roles of Kraus and Freud in the Vienna culture, on the Vienna Jugendkulturbewegung (youth culture movement) during WWI in which Geiringer was involved, on Freud’s and Siegfried Bernfeld’s standing…
Moving Localities and Creative Circulation: Travels as Knowledge Production in 18th-Century Europe
2014
In recent historiography of science, circulation has been widely used to weave global narratives about the history of science. These have tended to focus on flows of people, objects and practices rather than investigating the spread of universal patterns of knowledge. The approach has also, to a great extent, concentrated on colonial contexts and treated ‘European science’ as a more or less homogeneous knowledge realm. Furthermore, these studies of circulation have usually been tied to a contextualist view of knowledge formation in which locality is taken as a set of specificities linked with particular locations. In this article we redirect the focus of the discussion on circulation to Eur…
The ‘Società degli Spettroscopisti Italiani’: birth and evolution
2008
Summary The anniversary of the death of Pietro Tacchini (1838–1905), one of the pioneers of solar physics in Italy, is commemorared by this account of his major creation, the Societa degli Spettroscopisti Italiani (1871). Established to promote cooperation among solar spectroscopists engaged in the study of the solar chromosphere, it was the first scientific Society devoted to spectroscopy and its astronomical applications. Its journal, the Memorie, collected most of the important works on solar physics by Angelo Secchi SJ (1818–1878), Tacchini himself, and many other protagonists of the newly born astrophysics. A brief history of the Society and its development draws on many previously une…
Understanding, Truth and Explanation
1988
In this paper I intend to discuss the relationship between understanding, truth, and explanation, starting from the problem of the interpretation of alien belief systems. The examination of this will lead us to present an analysis of the structure of understanding, and to defend its cognitive universality in so far as any identification of reality reproduces the structure of the process of understanding. This cognitive universality does not necessarily exclude, however, the possibility of reducing understanding to causal relations. With respect to this, I shall discuss the plausibility of the views of Quine, Searle and Davidson on the kind of relation that holds between cognitive processes …
Paul Heywood Hirst (1927-2020) obituary
2021
Paul H. Hirst who has died at the age of 92 was, together with Richard Stanley Peters, one of the co-founders of the London School of Philosophy of Education. The London School, as it was known in ...