—’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 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...
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