Mundialização da ciência e respostas locais: sobre a institucionalização das ciências naturais no Brasil (de fins do século XVIII à transição ao século XX)

Abstract

A critical State of the art on historiography's interpretation of the Brazilian Natural Science's institutionalization process during the Nineteenth century is presented in this paper. Once dealt with the main approaches, features and interpretations made on such process a new position focused on the way those sciences were performed in the Brazilian society during the Nineteenth century is offered. In order to enlighten this new approach the main empirical contributions and the major features of a series of recent researches are presented.