Historiography of Science in Antiquity, Medieval Ages and Renaissance

11 Outubro 2021, 18:00 • Ana Duarte Rodrigues

The history of science was born as the history of ancient science.

• The first works of history of science appeared in the 4th century BC. The case of Eudemus.

• The role of Plato's Akademus and Aristotle's Lyceum in the development of the history of ancient science.

• Heurematography and the 'Greek Miracle'.

• The appropriation of Greek science by the Arabs in the 8th-10th centuries.

• Polydore Vergil's De rerum inventoribus.

• Sacred biography

• The first history of Renaissance mathematicians and physicians.