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...
What is Enlightenment?

What is Enlightenment?

—Accounts, myths and superstitions about the Enlightenment and its relationship with the sciences.—   In 1783, a parish priest in Berlin, Johann Friedrich Zöllner, asked a question in a magazine: ‘Was ist Aufklärung?’ (What is Enlightenment?) The most...
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...