—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...
—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...
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The editorial team
The editorial team of Sabers en acció (@sabersaccio) is made up of research and teaching staff from the Institut Interuniversitari López Piñero (IILP) and the Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT), as well as many other scholars from other academic institutions and research centres dedicated to the history of science, technology and medicine.