Historiography of Science in Antiquity, Medieval Ages and Renaissance
11 Outubro 2021, 16:00 • 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.