—The material culture of science was substantially transformed in the nineteenth century, a process in which the new instrument production industry played a key role.— The material culture of science, in particular scientific instruments, underwent...
—The new context of the nineteenth century created new barriers for women’s access to science. Despite this, their contributions continued to be very relevant in many areas.— One of the texts in which William Whewell defended the new word...
—The periodic table, a product of the collective creativity of science classrooms in the nineteenth century.— The periodic system is one of the most popular icons of contemporary chemistry. It is a classification of the elements that, through...
—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,...
—Science emerged as a profession in the nineteenth century, at the same time as a structure of disciplines and specialties was took shape.— William Whewell (1794-1866) developed a unique academic career in the first half of the nineteenth century....
—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...
