—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,...
—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 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...
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.
