Breno Arsioli Moura holds a PhD and MD in Physics Teaching, with emphasis in History of Science. His research interests are: History of Science, History of Optics and Teacher Education. He is a permanent adviser in the Teaching, History and Philosophy of Science Graduate Program at UFABC (Universidade Federal do ABC). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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In this project, we will conduct a critical diachronic study and a commented translation to Portuguese of Thomas Youngs two of his three first writtings on optics published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. We will follow current standards of the historiography of science, by considering the state of optical studies in the period, while the commented translatio…
In this project, we will study the works of José Francisco Silva Lima on ainhum published between 1867 and 1907. The disease was typically associated with slaves. From an archival study and an analysis of aspects of medicine in Brazil during the late 19th century, we aim to understand how the disease was initially described, the difficulties in characterizing it, the repercussion of Silva…
In this project, we propose to make a commented translation of two letter written by Benjamin Franklin in 1747 and addressed to Peter Collinson. Franklin presented his first investigations about electrical phenomena, discussing initial ideas of his conception of one electric fluid. To make this translation, we will proceed a historiographical study, analyzing both primary and secondary so…
This project will study the role and relevance of books II and III of Newtons Opticks to the construction of Newtonianism in French and Portuguese natural philosophy in the 18th century. These books contains studies on the colors of natural bodies, Newtons rings, double refraction, ether etc. In the last decades, historians have been concerned on other parts of Newtonianism in Europe in t…
This research project will study a selection of optical works published on the second half of eighteenth century in Europe and in the United States. We will proceed a critical analysis of the content of these works and of the social context when they were published. From this, we intend to present a more adequate view of the period, contrasting the common view that the studies about light…
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