History

DIPLOMACY

The undesirables

Estado Novo dictatorship concealed a project to “whiten” Brazil

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Memory

Therapies for the tropics

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

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Cover

An Immense Portugal

Portuguese Empire granted freedom to local elites in order to sustain itself

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Memory

Under the skies of Bahia

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

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Memory

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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pragmatic dilemma

Between theorems and railways

Debate on positivist mathematics led to pure science in Brazil

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Protectionism

An industry in the shadows

The Argentine motion picture industry, unlike the Brazilian, went commercial

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Memory

The visible history

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

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Dictatorship

Forbidden pages

List of books censored after the AI-5 act reveals criteria of the confiscation

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Cover

An inconvenient pinch of magic

Researchers discover alchemy powder in an archive at the Royal Society

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History of Science

On the shoulders of magic giants

The process of transforming alchemy into chemistry was long and smooth

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Sugarcane Women

Rebuilding the Past

Memories shed light on the sugar plantation settlements

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Rockefeller Foundation

A country is made out of people, health and illnesses

Foreign eradication programs influenced Brazil's construction

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Memory

A successful vocation

Pirajá da Silva described the schistosomiasis parasite

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History of science

Even so, sound moves

Galileo's father influenced his son in the search for experimental truth

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Foreign affairs

Dance of the wheelchairs at the United Nations

The idea of Brazil on the Security Council came from the US

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Memory

The man who counted

Alan Turing created the theoretical basis for computer science

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Spices

What do you hunger for?

Eating habits help understand the dynamics of relations in colonial Brazil

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Memory

An intelligent project

USP School of Medicine celebrates its 100th anniversary

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Memory

Echo of the Industrial Revolution

São Paulo’s first modern steam-driven factory

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Fabrics of history

The clothes that Brazilians wore during the ‘coffee with milk’ part of their history

What the First Republic hid beneath its clothes

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Memory

A zoo in the Amazon Region

The first zoo in Brazil opened 117 years ago in Belém

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Expedition

Science to create a nation

Rondon Commission naturalists helped to formalize scientific research

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Memory

A Brazilian adventure

78 years ago, Gleb Wataghin started physics research in Brazil

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Archaeology

Silent discourse of the slaves

Remains of Africans slaves were found in the center of Rio de Janeiro

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Memory

Pragmatic science

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

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Memory

At the infection front

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

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Cover

Bones that talk

Excavations reveal hitherto ill-known aspects of slavery

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Year of Chemistry

Science, a (not very) feminine word

Marie Curie is still one of the few women on the list of laureates in the area

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Memory

Sailing on familiar seas

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

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