Víctor Navarro-Brotons

Víctor Navarro-Brotons
University of Valencia | UV · Department of History of Science and Documentation

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In the last few decades, scholars have rethought the history of matter theories in important ways, particularly with respect to the sources, origins and antecedents of atomism and corpuscularianism in the seventeenth century. In particular, recent commentators have shown that the supposed opposition between atomism and Aristotelianism is insufficie...
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The star which became visible in 1572 in the constellation of Cassiopeia (identified by twentieth-century astronomers as a Type I supernova), and the works and polemics to which it gave rise, marked an important stage in the abandonment of Aristotelian and medieval cosmology and their replacement by the idea of the infinite—or indefinite—universe o...
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This essay examines some aspects of the teaching of mathematics and its applications in three of the principal sixteenth century Spanish universities (Salamanca, Valencia and Alcalá) and in other institutions sponsored by the monarchy, such as the “Casa de la Contratación” (House of Trade) of Seville and the so-called Academy of Mathematics of Madr...
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The past two decades have witnessed a striking re evaluation of early modern institutions of higher learning as impoverished intellectual centers, hostile to new modes of thought. The present volume offers the most comprehensive synthesis to date of the fecundity of early modern universities, their receptivity to novel scientific ideas, and their c...
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Experimental high-energy and nuclear physics was created in Spain thanks to Joaqun Catal de Alemany, who founded the Institute of Corpuscular Physics (IFIC) at the University of Valencia in 1950. The physics of photographic emulsions, cheap and easy to manipulate, were well adapted to the depressed situation in Spain following the Civil War. This e...
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España, como es bien sabido, participó en muy escasa medida en las realizaciones y avances de la ciencia europea del siglo XVII. Una serie compleja de factores políticos, sociales, económicos e ideológicos se sumaron, provocando el distanciamiento, cada vez mayor, de la actividad científica europea. El aislamiento ideológico, impuesto inicialmente...
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Among the Copernicans of the sixteenth century listed by Westman, only one Spaniard appears: the Augustinian friar, philosopher, and theologian Diego de Zúñiga. The object of this essay is to discuss the questions raised, first by Zúñiga's defense of heliocentrism in In Job commentaria and, second, by his change of mind as displayed in the Philosop...
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A bibliographical list, which is not meant to be exhaustive, is presented, being thought as usefull to know the role of the History of Sciences in teaching.
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This paper studies the place of the History of Sciences in the training of scientists and Science teachers. It also analyses the academical evolution of this subject.

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