zoom session The  Dissemination of knowledge

19 Março 2020, 12:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

The scientific societies as a means of developing and disseminating knowledge.Comparative analysis between the Royal Society of London and the Académie des Sciences in France. The relationship between political power and the advancement of knowledge. Reference to Francis Bacon's optimistic view in his New Atlantis in contrast with Jonathan Swift's satirical and thus critical perspective in "Voyage to Laputa", Gulliver's Travels. Reference to other European scientific societies.

     

Please, search data on the rise of scientific societies, for instance,

Porter, Roy, ed. 2003. The Cambridge History of Science. Vol. 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/17th-century-society-transformed-science