Science in the classroom

Science in the classroom

—A journey through the teaching of experimental science and the training of the elite.—   There is no scientific discipline that is valued without, at least, one founding father. Chemistry has two. The father of modern chemistry, Antoine Lavoisier,...
Travelling experiments

Travelling experiments

—The explosion of air, the decomposition of water and the combustion of fire.—   In the years during which the outbreak of the French Revolution was brewing, explosions created in laboratories by experimenters in different European cities were about...
Enlightened lives

Enlightened lives

—Women and commoners in the democratisation of science.—   Between 1797 and 1803, the daily press occasionally published news about the scientific events organised in the Coliseo de los Caños del Peral in Madrid, the Coliseo de Comedias in Valencia or...
Science in the public sphere

Science in the public sphere

—Spaces, figures and strategies at the service of the promotion and social approval of the sciences.—   Situating Chemistry is an online collaborative project whose main objective is to locate the spaces where chemistry has been carried out throughout history. It...