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Año:
2005
ISSN:
2174-5676, 1133-5351
Turner, G. L´E.
Facultad de Filosofía. UNED
Resumen
No scientific instruments made by Gerard Mercator (1512- 1594), the great cartographer, were known to exist, though it is recorded that he made astrolabes and other brass artefacts. In early 1992, the present author identified an unsigned astrolabe in Florence as being made in Mercstor's Duisburg workshop. By 1994, the 400th anniversary of Mercator's death, two fiírther astrolabes had been identified as being by his hand. They are in museums in Augsburg and Brno. This paper describes the mcthod of identifícation of these unsigned instruments, culminating in the discovcry of Mercator's monogram on the rim of the astrolabe in Brno.
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2005
ISSN:
2174-5676, 1133-5351
Simó Castell, Josep; García Belmar, Antonio; Bertomeu Sánchez, José Ramón
Facultad de Filosofía. UNED
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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 pubhc, we try in this essay to understand the evolution of the didactic methods employed by the successive teachers and assistants when teaching physics and chemistry in the existing cabinets, amphitheatres and laboratories.
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2005
ISSN:
2174-5676, 1133-5351
Solís Santos, Carlos
Facultad de Filosofía. UNED
Resumen
Athanasius Kircher was commonly addressed with courdiest reverence by his contemporaries, but he was frequendy criticized and even despised in private correspondence. We examine here the evolution of die negative appraisal of his work by the members of the Republic of Letters in France, Italy, Germany and England, and we identify Kircher's shortcomings with the ideological attitude of Jesuit science aimed at uprooting the scientific world view.
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Año:
2005
ISSN:
2174-5676, 1133-5351
Armero Sanjosé, Julio César
Facultad de Filosofía. UNED
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The experimenter's regress is one of the arguments that seem to back epistemológical relativism. It has been noted that it carries a cióse resemblance to the hermeneutical circle. This paper tries to show how the hindrances for scientific practice involved in the situation described by the argument appear in unrelated áreas of research and how the difficulties are dealt with. The comparative approach seems to throw some light on a few features of baconian science often made dependent upon wide sociological fact.
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Año:
2005
ISSN:
2174-5676, 1133-5351
Heering, Peter
Facultad de Filosofía. UNED
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The aim of this paper is to discuss instruments and experiments from the history of physics that were rejected in the historical situation. As a consequence, only very few of these devices were produced —and virtually none of them did survive. Thus, in order to develop an understanding of the experimental practice connected with these devices the replication method is applied. In short, this method— which will be discussed on a general level in the first part of the paper —is based on self-reflexive interaction with reconstructed apparatus and the contextualisation of the experiences made in the laboratory. The example of experiments published by Jean Paul Marat in the 1780ies shall illustrate the usefiílness of this method in order to develop an understanding of experiments that were rejected in the historical situation.
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Año:
2005
ISSN:
2174-5676, 1133-5351
Guijarro Mora, Víctor
Facultad de Filosofía. UNED
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In Spain, apart from popular uses, the barometer was concicved in the IS'*" Century to supply cuantitative observations in order to establish climatic parameters. These projects were supported by a dominant utilitarian mentality: after the examination of data it was supposed that relevant conclusions could be obtained for the knowledge of healthy environmental conditions as well as for the improvement of agricultural skills. This, in turn, focused the attention on a type of barometer in which reliability, and not extreme precisión, was the priority.
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Año:
2005
ISSN:
2174-5676, 1133-5351
Levere, Trevor H.
Facultad de Filosofía. UNED
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The spread of the late eighteenth-century chemical revolution depended on access to appropriate apparatus. Theories depend upon practice, which depends upon instruments. Pneumatic chemistry required new apparatus for the isolation, measurement, and admixture of difFerent gases. Lavoisier's pneumatic chemistry invoived his new, refined, expensive gasometers. The development of cheaper but still fimctional gasometers by chemists and instrument makers enabled chemists outside Paris to repeat and extend Lavoisier's key experiments. Lavoisier's superb precisión balances were an important part of his arsenal. Glass apparatus made increasing demands on glass blowers. The bottle faetones that had supplied Black in Edinburgh and later Proust in Segovia were no longer adequate.
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Año:
2005
ISSN:
2174-5676, 1133-5351
Sellés García, Manuel
Facultad de Filosofía. UNED
Resumen
The paper deals with problems and needs derived from the acquisition and use of instrumens by an institution such as the Spanish Navy in the context of 18* Century. In order to analize the results of the Navy instrumentation poUcy, particular elements are examined, such as the composition of the institution, its priorities, and different issues concerning technical and educational factors
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