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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin (IFGW) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduate at Física from Universidade de São Paulo (1972) and ph.d. at Philosophy from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1987). Has experience in History, focusing on History of Sciences, acting on the following subjects: historia da fisica, história da física, epistemologia, historia da biologia and história da ciência. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Up to the beginning of the 20th century nobody knew that there exists a set of huge stellar systems (the galaxies). Only our galaxy (the Milky Way) was known, and it was usually thought that the "nebulae" were part of it. This research will study the historical development of our knowledge concerning the structure of the Milky Way and the nature of galaxies, giving special attention to th…
This research will study the role of the ancient atomistic concepts in the development of the "mechanical philosophy" and in the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century, analysing to what extent did those modern authors follow the Greek and Roman atomists.
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