—If a global map of the places of the Enlightenment were drawn up, the resulting image would be full of light and dark.— At the end of the eighteenth century, many activities related to science had found spaces for their development, such as private...
—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...
—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...
—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...
—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...
—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...
