Europe looks to others

Europe looks to others

—As colonial interests propelled new military exploration and conquests, the Eurocentric view of the world had to confront cultures which until then it knew little or nothing about.—   To finish laying the foundations for a panoramic, critical and...
Breaking the barrier of the invisible

Breaking the barrier of the invisible

—Telescopes and microscopes, instruments resulting from the knowledge and expertise of glass artisans, were a great contribution to the development of the new experimental philosophy of the seventeenth century.—   From the end of the fifteenth century...
Rodrigo Zamorano, cosmographer

Rodrigo Zamorano, cosmographer

—’Going round the world’ crossing the oceans was an extraordinary achievement, the result of a specific combination of knowledge and techniques involving the figure of the cosmographer.—   Being a cosmographer in the Renaissance meant mastering...
The court, a space for science

The court, a space for science

—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...
Knowledge of a globalised world

Knowledge of a globalised world

—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...
Knowledge in circulation: letters, books and journals

Knowledge in circulation: letters, books and journals

—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...