Writing the history of knowledge in Brazil

Abstract

Abstract This article surveys recent contributions to the history of knowledge in Brazil, mainly concerned with the history of the sciences, and makes some suggestions about the future development of the field, focussing on the different spaces or sites of knowledge (colleges and universities, museums, archives, botanical gardens, observatories, newspapers, foundations and so on) that have proliferated in the last 200 years in particular.

Keywords

• ciência
• universidades
• museus
• Brasil
• história do conhecimento