Wellcome to Sabers en acció (Knowledge(s) in Action), your online multi-linguistic textbook on the history of science, technology and medicine. Knowledge(s) in Action is new journey through the history of science, technology and medicine based on the latest...
—How practical methods and interpretations of composition evolved in eighteenth-century chemical analysis.— Composition is a central aspect of modern chemistry. Various substances are identified by some aspect of their elementary composition,...
—How Ancient Greek technology has shaped modern engineering and the current relevance of harmony and moderation.— Ancient Greek technology represents one of the earliest examples of human ingenuity, laying the groundwork for numerous advancements in...
—Nerves, gender and modernity at the end of the 19th century.— In 1869, the New York neurologist George Miller Beard (1839–1883) described a new disease before the American Medical Association: neurasthenia, or nervous exhaustion, which in it’s...
—The naturalization of synthetic vanillin from 1874 until 1959.— Is it possible to describe a particular flavor as the taste of a century? The variety of culinary landscapes suggests that it might be difficult to claim such a dominance for only one...
—The role of sight, taste, smell, and touch in early modern chemistry.— Understanding the role of the senses in the history of science poses unique challenges for the historian. Most sensory impressions are part of our daily experiences. Often,...
—The transformation of the regime of knowledge production, and history as a tool to reflect on the present and future of science.— The history of science is a relatively young branch of historiography, but with a wide and varied tradition, as seen...
—From physics and political commitment to a new conception of what a science museum should be.— The history of twentieth-century science is full of physicists turned into true cultural heroes. Their work and contributions, however, were made...
—A fundamental objective of twentieth-century physics was to make subatomic particles go round and round increasingly faster— One of the fundamental tools for research in the field of atomic and nuclear physics is the cyclotron. A cyclotron is a...
—Research to win the war: armed conflict as a stimulus for the development of science and technology.— Since the origins of humankind, war has been one of the main stimuli for the development of science and technology. There is evidence of...
—Definition, characteristics and examples of Big Science.— Historical studies on science, medicine and technology show how scientific and technological activity has been transformed over time. For example, from the second half of the nineteenth...
The editorial team of Sabers en acció (@sabersaccio) is made up of research and teaching staff from the Institut Interuniversitari López Piñero (IILP) and the Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT), as well as many other scholars from other academic institutions and research centres dedicated to the history of science, technology and medicine.
