—The crossroads of cultures, languages and religions in the Middle Ages: Muslims, Jews and Christians in the production of scientific knowledge.— We must bear in mind that, during the Middle Ages, Europe was a scene of profound and diverse cultural...
—Places where the transformation processes of raw materials for a great number of consumer products were carried out.— Apothecaries were a type of basic artisan, well recognised in medieval times. For a variable number of years, they trained in the rudiments of the...
—Physician to popes and kings, reformer of the teaching of medicine at the beginning of the fourteenth century, prolific writer, diplomat and theologian in search of a new Christianity.— Arnau de Vilanova is undoubtedly one of the most appealing...
—The spaces where knowledge was preserved, debated and developed in the Middle Ages.— After the disintegration of the Roman educational system, in the Middle Ages, three phases characterising the development of educational institutions in the Latin...
—How the Middles Ages took the classical legacy and laid the foundations for the Scientific Revolution.— We often hear pejorative adjectives inspired by the Middle Ages, such as ‘feudal’ or ‘medieval’. An image of obscurantism still stains this...
—Numbers enabled the construction of complex urbanised societies, which mobilised many resources.— If there was one discipline that attracted the interest of all ancient societies, it was mathematics. Egypt, Babylon, India, Greece, China and...
—The desire to compile all acquired knowledge: Aristotle and Pliny the Elder.— The Greeks and Romans felt the need to bring order to all acquired knowledge. Aristotle and his school stood out for their attempt to analyse and order all the phenomena...
—The synthesis of classical medicine carried out by Galen and his followers succeeded in creating the model that prevailed in the Western world until the eighteenth century.— Few figures dedicated to the study of the human body, both in health and...
—From Mesopotamian scribes to heated debates in the plazas of classical Greece. Thus, knowledge was constructed in the Mediterranean societies of Antiquity.— Researchers require institutions that employ them or provide them with space to present...
—The beginning of a journey through the production of knowledge on nature in the civilisations of Antiquity: Mesopotamia, Egypt and classical Greece.— The term ‘science’ has different meanings, all of which are legitimate. It is not at...
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