Antonio Garcia-Belmar

University of Alicante | UA · Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine and Public Health and History of Science

El laboratorio de análisis químico abierto, entre 1867 y 1880, en la calle Carretas de Madrid, es estudiado aquí en el contexto de las disputas corporativas por el control de un nuevo espacio de actividad académica y profesional surgido en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX en torno a la determinación de composición química de alimentos, bebidas y prod...

Education and textbooks have traditionally been standard objects of research in the history of science, technology, and medicine. However, they have often remained marginal in the formulation of large historiographical questions. In the last decades, the work of some historians of science has challenged this state of affairs. STEP has promoted a di...

The most striking feature of the diffusion of Mendeleev’s system in France is that his great achievement prompted no real debates, no controversy among French academic chemists. It is not that his work was totally ignored. Rather, it was integrated as a non-event in the daily work focused on the discovery and characterization of chemical elements t...

addition to discussing the appropriation of the periodic system, the book examines meta-physical reflections of nature based on the periodic system outside the field of chemistry, and considers how far humans can push the categories of "response" and "reception." Early Responses to the Periodic System provides a compelling read for anyone with an i...

This paper provides an overview on the history of scientific instrument collections in Spanish secondary schools, focusing especially on the period around their establishment in the mid-nineteenth century. It describes their most important features as well as their promoters and main users. Attention is also paid to the teaching practices which enc...

LA QUÍMICA SUFRIÓ UNA IMPORTANTE TRANS-formación que afectó no solamente a los contenidos sino también a las prác-ticas experimentales y su cultura material, así como a su inserción académi-ca y a su imagen social. Los químicos desarrollaron toda una serie de estrategias para conseguir reconocimiento social, apoyo institucional y los re-cursos nece...

This article is concerned with the public courses and lecture demonstrations given by Louis Jacques Thenard at the College de France during the first decades of the nineteenth century. The expectations and needs of Thenard's auditors will be studied in order to understand the role played by chemistry courses at the College in the context of the gro...

Pedro Gutiérrez Bueno wrote two editions of a chemistry textbook between 1788 and 1802. The paper offers a comparative view of both editions taking into account Gutiérrez Bueno’s biography, his intended audience and the changes related to the so-called chemical revolution. Some conclusions are at odds with common images about scientific revolutions...

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Iniciada por los propios protagonistas, desarrollada por los «químicos historiadores » del siglo XIX y engrosada, revisada y completamente reformulada desde la historia, la sociología y la filosofía de la ciencia del siglo XX, la narración de la llamada «Revolución química» han dado lugar a uno de los capítulos más ricos y extensos de la historiogr...

This study is an attempt to reconstruct the evolution of spaces and scientific equipments used for the teaching of physics and chemistry in the University of Valencia in the 19th century. Through an analysis of the instruments' characteristics and their spatial distribution, the teaching programs and textbooks, as well as the profile of the target...

En étudiant le cas de la chimie, ce livre montre que le manuel devient un genre éditorial autonome au terme d’un long processus historique, qui engage autant que l’évolution d’une science, les réformes scolaires, les mutations du monde de l’édition et le statut des professeurs. Ainsi placé au carrefour de trois histoires trop souvent cloisonnées– h...

During recent decades, scientific activity in the Spanish Enlightenment has attracted the attention of many historians of science. The policies of enlightened governments have been regarded as an important step in the process of modernisation of eighteenth-century Spanish society. At the beginning of that century, a new Bourbon dynasty was establis...

The purpose of this paper is to reconsider the issue of the creativity of textbook writing by exploring the links between nineteenth-century French textbooks and the quest for a classification of elements. The first section presents the elegant combination of didactic and chemical constraints invented by eighteenth-century chemists: the order of le...

font face="Times New Roman" size="1"> Scientific travel during late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century Spain has been regarded as an important issue concerning Spanish science. The large number of Spanish chemistry students who travelled to Paris during the Enlightenment seems to have played a mayor role in the transmission of chemical...

This paper is a part of a general research project on the role that chemistry played in the transition of materia medica to experimental pharmacology during 19th century Spain. Within this general framework, the paper deals with the main characteristics of Spanish textbooks aimed at pharmaceutical and medical students. In a former study, published...

This paper is part of a general research project on the role that chemistry played in transforming experimental pharmacology during nineteenth-century Spain. Within this general framework, this paper deals with the main characteristics of chemistry textbooks written by Pedro Gutiérrez Bueno (1745-1822), a pharmacist who taught chemistry in several...

Scientific travel during late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century Spain has been regarded as an important issue concerning Spanish science. The large number of Spanish chemistry students who travelled to Paris during the Enlightenment seems to have played a mayor role in the transmission of chemical revolution. On the contrary, early ni...

M.J.B. Orfila publia au debut du XIX e siecle un livre traitant de cours de chimie et principalement destine aux etudiants en medecine et pharmacie. L'A. analyse comment ce manuscrit a ete accepte par la communaute medicale francaise

This paper is a part of a general research project on Spanish pharmacology during the 19th century. Among other issues, this project addressed the role that chemistry played in transforming materia medica into experimental pharmacology. Within this general framework, this paper deals with chemistry textbooks aimed at students of medicine and surger...

“Nombrar la materia” es una introducción histórica a la terminología química, en la que se muestran las características fundamentales del vocabulario químico, el proceso que ha llevado a su formación y los instrumentos ideados para su control. Los autores muestran a través de este capítulo central de la química las posibilidades que ofrece el uso d...

En: Alambique : didáctica de las ciencias experimentales Barcelona 1998, n. 17 ; p. 20-36 El presente trabajo se enmarca dentro de las investigaciones sobre las aplicaciones de la historia de la ciencia a la enseñanza de las ciencias: su objetivo principal consiste en ofrecer algunas sugerencias acerca del modo en que puede renovarse la enseñanza d...

La obra es una introducción histórica a la terminología química. Se muestran las características fundamentales del vocabulario químico, el proceso que ha llevado su formación y los instrumentos ideados para su control.

Se presenta un análisis de la transformación que colocó a la química en una posición destacada entre las ciencias. Se construye una narración plural del desarrollo histórico de esta ciencia desde el siglo XVIII que difiere substancialmente de la concepción del siglo XIX, se incluye desde la concepción del flogisto hasta la revolución que causó con...