Contents
Introduction
Crossing over time: The place of chemical studies in early modern trees of knowledge
Ana Maria Alfonso-Goldfarb, Márcia H.M. Ferraz & Sílvia Waisse
Charles Sanders Peirce and experimental science
Maria de Lourdes Bacha
Popularizing chemistry in the early nineteenth-century: Samuel Parkes and his Chemical Catechism
José Otávio Baldinato & Paulo Alves Porto
Science, colonialism and indigenous pharmaceutical companies in Colonial Bengal: An East - West endeavor
Malika Basu-Ghosh
Reconsidering the idea of quintessence through the analysis of Renaissance texts on distillation
Maria Helena Roxo Beltran & Fumikazu Saito
On Lonergan’s philosophy of knowing and historical insights
Fábio Maia Bertato
Musical knowledge in the history of Atalanta fugiens
Carla Bromberg
Contradictions in reasoning: an evil or a blessing?
Walter A. Carnielli, Marcelo E. Coniglio & Abílio Rodrigues
Proposing texture and presenting paradoxes in elements: two steps and one purpose
Kleber Cecon
Crossing borders: medical ideas in late medieval non-medical areas
Floriano Jonas Cesar
The transmission of the Voltaic battery
Hasok Chang
250 years of Vicente Seabra, the first modern Brazilian chemist: intellectual influences, beliefs, and achievements
Carlos A. L. Filgueiras
Construction of documents and memories of the Brazilian chemical community: life stories and institutionalization of science in the 20th century
Andrea Paula dos Santos Oliveira Kamensky
Epistemic and ontological reality of the elements for Robert Boyle
Conleth Loonan
Filing or taxonomy: the case of Li Shizhen (1518-1593)
Georges Métailié
The development of industrial chemistry at the National Medical Institute (1904-1915): The study of Mexican medicinal Plants
Liliana Schifter & Patricia Aceves
Historians and their data
Stephen P. Weldon
