—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...
—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...
—’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...
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.
