—The courts of kings, viceroys, cardinals and aristocrats became, for several centuries, a privileged space for the production and circulation of scientific knowledge and experimental practices.— The court may be considered one of the most complex...
—The first globalisation began with the creation of the Iberian colonial empires: forced intercultural contact that led to hybrid knowledge about nature.— The geographical space conveyed by classical Greco-Roman geography had its centre in the...
—Books, letters and the first scientific journals were the material media for the circulation of knowledge among the European and colonial elite participating in the Republic of Letters.— Although not immediately and, of course, without replacing or...
—Born at the end of the thirteenth century, anatomical dissection went from being a sporadic rarity to a widespread experimental practice in Western scientific culture.— The opening of a cadaver with the aim of searching inside it to learn the...
—How the obsession of a collector contributed to the creation of network for the exchange and circulation of scientific knowledge on nature and its productions.— Ulisse Aldrovandi was one of the best-known naturalists of the second half of the...
—The passion for collecting wonders of nature led to the creation of an essential space for understanding the science of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the cabinet of curiosities.— The passion for collecting that was unleashed in the...
—Twentieth century history of science invented a ‘Scientific Revolution’ for the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to acquire a prestigious past.— The Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is an invention of the...
—The crossroads of cultures, languages and religions in the Middle Ages: Muslims, Jews and Christians in the production of scientific knowledge.— We must bear in mind that, during the Middle Ages, Europe was a scene of profound and diverse cultural...
—Places where the transformation processes of raw materials for a great number of consumer products were carried out.— Apothecaries were a type of basic artisan, well recognised in medieval times. For a variable number of years, they trained in the rudiments of the...
—Physician to popes and kings, reformer of the teaching of medicine at the beginning of the fourteenth century, prolific writer, diplomat and theologian in search of a new Christianity.— Arnau de Vilanova is undoubtedly one of the most appealing...