Crossing Oceans: Exchange of Products, Instruments and Procedures in the History of Chemistry and Related Sciences Selected Papers
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“In 2014, CESIMA (Center Simão Mathias of Studies in History of Science, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo) celebrated its 20 anniversary. To mark the occasion, CLE (Centre for Logic, Epistemology and History of Science, State University of Campinas - UNICAMP), SHAC (Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry) and CESIMA organized an international conference, which was the first meeting of SHAC held outside Europe and the United States.
The main theme of the conference was the transit of scientific knowledge in time and space with emphasis on two main areas of studies of particular interest to the organizing entities. One such area concerns the transformations of the theoretical notions and processes proper to the science of matter from the early modern period to the 20% century, involving not only chemistry, but also medicine and related sciences. The other deals with the acquisition and organization of knowledge, including the logic of scientific discourse.
Thirty-six original papers were delivered by scholars from several continents in the course of five days to an audience of more than 100 people. Participants included historians of science, epistemologists, logicians, bibliographers and IT' specialists. Activities included a poster session, in which about twenty history of science graduate students presented their work in progress, and the fourth Allen Debus Biennial Lectures. The conference was funded by the Brazilian agencies CAPES (Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education), CNPq (National Council of Scientific and Technological Development), FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation) and FAEPEX/UNICAMP (Teaching, Research and Outreach Support Funding Agency), and SHAC, with additional support from Maney Publishing.
The result was, in the SHAC chairman's words, “a remarkable series of exchanges between scholars of different nationalities, career stages, and disciplinary backgrounds, with a shared interest in mapping the spread of chemical knowledge, both globally and locally, between the early modern period and the present day”!. As concerns the organization and nature of knowledge, in addition to the ongoing collaborations, the path was paved for future ones in the still unmapped development of history of science within the new field of Digital Humanities.
A glimpse into the overall atmosphere of the conference and its underpinning historiographical rationale is available in a special issue of the journal Ambix. The present volume contains a special selection of papers, which we believe is a representative sample of the work presented and discussed at the meeting, which can be expected to contribute to the future directions of research in the history of science and management of the corresponding documents. As the papers deal with complex objects and are closely related, they are presented in alphabetical order of authorship.”
AUTORES:
Ana M. Alfonso-Goldfarb
Walter A. Carnielli
Hasok Chang
Marcia H. M. Ferraz
José Luiz Goldfarb
Sílvia Waisse
VOLUME 75 – 2015
ISSN: 0103-3247
Indice para catálogo sistemático
Ciência-Historia – 509
OBS. The main theme of the conference was the transiton of scientific knowledge in time and space with emphasis on two main areas of studies of particular interest to the organizing entities. One such area concerns the transformations of the theoretical notions and processes proper to the science of matter from early modern period to the 20th century, involving not only chemistry, but also medicine and related.
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