Presentation

José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez

 

Presentation: A chronological journey

 

1. Origins

Carmel Ferragud

From darkness to light: a false metaphor

 

 

Science among temples and agoras

 

Claudius Galen and Galenism

 

Encyclopaedias in Antiquity

 

The ancients and mathematics

 

2. Middle Ages

Carmel Ferragud

Much more than darkness

 

 

Monasteries and universities

 

Arnau de Vilanova

 

The apothecary and the alchemist’s workshop

 

Worlds in contact

 

3. Scientific Revolution I

José Pardo Tomás

Was there a Scientific Revolution?

 

 

Nature in the cabinet

 

Ulisse Aldrovandi, collector

 

Opening cadavers, a unique experiment

 

Knowledge in circulation: letters, books and journals

 

4. Scientific Revolution II

José Pardo Tomás

Knowledge of a globalised world

 

 

The court, a space for science

 

Rodrigo Zamorano, cosmographer

 

Breaking the barrier of the invisible

 

Europe looks to others

 

5. Science and Enlightenment​

Antonio García Belmar and José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez

What is Enlightenment?

 

 

Science in the public sphere

 

Enlightened lives

 

Travelling experiments

 

The dreams of reason

 

6. Physico-chemical sciences during the 19th century

José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez and Antonio García Belmar

William Whewell and science as a liberal profession

 

 

Science in the classroom

 

Classification and discipline: The order of the elements

 

Women of science in the nineteenth century

 

The birth of the industry of precision

 

7. Medicine during the 19th century

María José Báguena Cervellera

Clinical revolution

 

 

Bacteria and laboratories

 

Ignaz Semmelweis

 

‘Magic bullets’

 

Microbiology

 

8. Biology between the 19th and 20th centuries

Ximo Guillem Llobat

Life science

 

 

Francis Galton and eugenics

 

One gene, one enzyme

 

King’s College and the structure of DNA

 

The Asilomar Conference

 

9. Biomedicine and public health in the 20th century

Josep Lluís Barona Vilar

The political economy of health

 

 

Spaces for health action

 

Biographies: Ludwik Rajchman and Walter Cannon

 

Hospitals and medical specialities

 

Biopolitics and medical power

 

10. 20th century science

Pedro Ruiz-Castell

Big Science

 

 

Military facilities

 

The cyclotron

 

Frank Oppenheimer

 

Contemporary science