Our current issue is available online!

Our aim is to provide a panoramic perspective of what has been achieved on selected themes and what needs more investigation.

Nelson Sanjad, a historian from the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, in Belém, was commissioned to write on international exhibitions related to Latin America. We should mention that this article was possible thanks to the grant we received from the Wellcome Trust about a year ago.

Topics include: The botanist George Gardner’s  impressions of slave culture in Brazil, 1810- 1850; The evolutionist debate in Spain during the nineteenth century;  the thalidomide tragedy in Brazil, in the late 1950s; the indicators of scientific productivity; and the relationship between encyclopedic knowledge and the construction of science. Enjoy!