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A surgeon’s advice

An 18th-century manual on medicine reveals details of the art of curing

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Theory and practice

The Strength of Materials Laboratory led to advances in technological development

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Images of distant cultures

Photographs by Harald Schultz chronicles his experiences working among indigenous

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Fine affinities

A fine compendium

Anonymous 19th-century botanical dictionary had strong ties to chemistry

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Scientists and enthusiasts

110 years ago, the São Paulo Society of Science was founded

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The value of language

Analysis of place names helps tell the story of the Royal Road

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Therapies for the tropics

Book by a barber-surgeon describes the cures used in 18th century

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Under the skies of Bahia

Valentin Stansel’s astronomy observations were mentioned in Newton’s Principia

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Forty-two years ago, FAPESP and TV Cultura produced educational programs on the sciences

Forty-two years ago, FAPESP and TV Cultura produced educational programs on the sciences

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The visible history

São Paulo State Archives make seven thousand images of documents on slavery available on-line

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A successful vocation

Pirajá da Silva described the schistosomiasis parasite

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The man who counted

Alan Turing created the theoretical basis for computer science

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An intelligent project

USP School of Medicine celebrates its 100th anniversary

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Echo of the Industrial Revolution

São Paulo’s first modern steam-driven factory

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A zoo in the Amazon Region

The first zoo in Brazil opened 117 years ago in Belém

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A Brazilian adventure

78 years ago, Gleb Wataghin started physics research in Brazil

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My dear Sir

Correspondence helped to consolidate the theory of evolution

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Pragmatic science

The first state laboratory for chemical analyses was established 200 years ago

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At the infection front

Rocha Lima discovered the origin of exanthematic typhus, 95 years ago

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Sailing on familiar seas

Colonial Brazil produced in the 17th century the galleon Padre Eterno

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Among the birds in the forest

The ornithologist Emilia Snethlage undertook pioneering research in the Amazon region at the start of the twentieth century

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The observer of cities

In 2,400 photos, Frederick Hoehne reveals a keen eye in the early twentieth century

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Algebraic obsessions

Two hundred years ago Évariste Galois, the creator of group theory and a tragic character in the history of science, was born

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Mapping the New World

Astronomers determined latitudes in the Amazon and wrote about the region

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A single land

Reinhard Maack found evidence of the origin of continents in Brazil 85 years ago

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(Almost) forgotten knowledge

Study brings back a centuries-old technique to build in stone

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Chagas

Physician discovered the full cycle of the disease named after him

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Records of a comet

Mathematician wrote about Halley's passage across Brazil 252 years ago

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Poison against poison

One hundred years ago, Vital Brazil published "A defesa contra o ofidismo"

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Gonçalves Dias, ethnographer

Gonçalves Dias wrote about and collected material on Brazil's indigenous people

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