Entrevista a Patricia Fara
Patricia Fara és membre docent de Clare College en Cambridge, on ensenya història de la ciència. Ha desenvolupat fins avui una carrera original i sorprenent que l'ha portat finalment a
Carl Sagan and Extraterrestrial Life. The life and scientific work of Carl Sagan are examined in the light of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) endeavour. His flamboyant personality is
Life on Mars - Scientific Speculation? In 1877, Giovani Schiaparelli accurately observed the surface of Mars and described it as a system of “canals”, implying that they had been built
Feijoo, Science in God's Service. Defender of modern science and an enemy of error, friar Benito Jerónimo Feijoo (1676-1764) is the great disseminator of Spanish Illustration; despite this, neither his
Giordano Bruno and the “New Philosophy”: the Infinite Universe and the Plurality of the Worlds. Giordano Bruno is often considered as a martyr of the first scientific revolution or as
Pierre Belon, a Modern Zoologist of the Renaissance. In the middle ages, the treasure of natural history learning was the Bestiary, in which biology and symbolism were mixed in similar
Quan Johann Wolfgang Goethe va explicar a Frederich Shiller la seua teoria de la metamorfosi de les plantes, aquest va contestar de manera tallant: "Tot em sembla bé, però no
La textura dels aliments El sabor i la textura són dos criteris que s’utilitzen per a caracteritzar i acceptar o rebutjar els aliments. El delicat sabor d’una torta del Casar, típica
La història de l’alimentació humana ha tingut tres instants crucials. El primer es va produir fa dos milions i mig d’anys en algun lloc d’Àfrica, quan alguns prehomínids van començar a incorporar petites porcions de carn a la seua dieta vegetariana.
