Abstract: The Laboratory of Colonial Agricultural and Technology, part of the High Institute of Agronomy (I.S.A.), Lisbon, was inserted into the “politics of scientific research and education” of the National Board of Education ( J.E.N.) 1929-1936. From the role played by its Director – Carlos de Mello Geraldes – we can have an archeology of ideas on the role of colonial agronomy research and scientific practic...
The advent of Republic in 1910 brought important higher education reforms in Portugal which implied that the new teachers should get scientific training in advanced Europe countries. Looking for a more solid relation with the scientific developed Europe, Spain created in 1907 an institution with the purpose of reducing its scientific backwardness. Following the Spanish example and after several failed attempts,...
Tal como se apresentou no resumo desta comunicação, o objectivo deste texto é abordar pistas para o estudo, limitado pela década de trinta e de quarenta, de alguns casos considerados exemplares e ilustradores do esforço feito em Portugal para ― lançar a actividade de investigação científica organizada, ― dar a conhecer, em revistas culturais e noutros meios de comunicação social, temas de natureza científica ...
No Portugal do período entre guerras a Teoria da Relatividade não passou despercebida e foi alvo de referência e de alguma reflexão, tendo sido tema de relatórios académicos, cursos universitários, comunicações a congressos e ainda de alguns, escassos, trabalhos de investigação mais ligados ao domínio das matemáticas. Em torno desta teoria expressaram-se ideias a favor e contra, tendo-se estabelecido algumas po...
The theory of relativity was a scientific subject that interested a small number of Portuguese scientists in the first decades of the twentieth century. Portugal was associated with the observational confirmation of general relativity ─ observations of the solar eclipse were carried out on the island of Príncipe; however, no Portuguese astronomers took part in the scientific expedition. International seminars, ...
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