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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 ensenyar a Cambridge i ser una reputada autora de llibres de divulgació científica. Tot i

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 presented, and the successes and failures of his contribution to SETI. Also, his career as

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 by a Martian civilization. All this stirred a polemic - public opinion was anxious to

Les novel·les de Huxley i orwell són ben conegudes al món: The Brave New World i 1984. Dues novel·les futristes que van encendre una nova perspectiva de futur. Narrem les vides d'aquests grans visionaris.

Jules Verne: científic o visionari? alguns diuen que es l'inventor del submarí i de la televisió. Descobrim la vida d'aquest jurista de professió i escriptor per passió.

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 empiricism nor his erudition were able to go beyond the limits of his epoch or

L'alquimia: la utopia sobre la pedra filosofal i l'elixir de la vida. Utòpic? Sorprén que científics de la talla de Newton buscaren descobrir aquests misteris.

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 a visionary ahead of his time, introducing the idea of the infinite universe and the

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 proportions. Later, the emancipation of true zoology from religious learning began in the Renaissance with