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  1. The Local versus the Global in the history of relativity: The case of Belgium.Sjang L. ten Hagen - 2020 - Science in Context 33 (3):227-250.
    ArgumentThis article contributes to a global history of relativity, by exploring how Einstein’s theory was appropriated in Belgium. This may sound like a contradiction in terms, yet the early-twentieth-century Belgian context, because of its cultural diversity and reflectiveness of global conditions (the principal example being the First World War), proves well-suited to expose transnational flows and patterns in the global history of relativity. The attempts of Belgian physicist Théophile de Donder to contribute to relativity physics during the 1910s and 1920s (...)
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  • The Portuguese Astronomer Melo e Simas : Republican Ideals and Popularization of Science.Ana Simões & Luís Miguel Carolino - 2014 - Science in Context 27 (1):49-77.
    ArgumentThis paper analyses a process of co-construction of knowledge and its multiple forms of communication in a country of the European periphery in the early twentieth century. It focuses on Lieutenant Manuel Soares de Melo e Simas, a politically engaged Portuguese astronomer, who moved from amateur to professional during the political transition from the monarchy to the republic. Melo e Simas paralleled his professional career in continuous activity of communicating science to the public in the context of republicanism in a (...)
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  • In the Shadow of the 1919 Total Solar Eclipse: The Two British Expeditions and the Politics of Invisibility.Ana Simões - 2022 - Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 45 (4):581-601.
    This paper addresses the legendary total solar eclipse of 29 May 1919. Two British teams confirmed the light bending prediction by Albert Einstein: Charles R. Davidson and Andrew C. C. Crommelin in Sobral, Brazil and Arthur S. Eddington and Edwin T. Cottingham on the African island of Príncipe, then part of the Portuguese empire.By jointly analyzing the two astronomical expeditions supported by written and visual sources, I show how, despite extensive scholarship on this famous historical episode and the historiographical emphasis (...)
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  • Halley Turns Republican: How the Portuguese Press Presented the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet.Ana Simões, Isabel Zilhão, Maria Paula Diogo & Ana Carneiro - 2013 - History of Science 51 (2):199-219.
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  • Time, Weather and Empires: The Campos Rodrigues Observatory in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique.Pedro M. P. Raposo - 2015 - Annals of Science 72 (3):279-305.
    SummaryIn 1905 the Campos Rodrigues Observatory was founded in Lourenço Marques, the capital of Mozambique, by then part of the Portuguese overseas empire. In this paper the inception and early history of the CRO are analysed in the broader context of the interwoven history of the Portuguese and British empires in Africa, and specifically with respect to the scientific relations between Mozambique and South Africa. The equipment, personnel, practices and networks involved in the inception and early development of the CRO (...)
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  • New Straw for the Old Broom. [REVIEW]Joseph D. Martin - 2015 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 54:138–143.
    Relativity is one of the most overfished streams in the history of science. Albert Einstein has doubtless graced the covers of more monographs than any other scientist—possibly save Charles Darwin—in the decade since the 2005 centenary of his annus mirabilis. I was skeptical that Jimena Canales would be able land new catch from such thoroughly exploited waters. The Physicist and the Philosopher proved that skepticism misplaced. By exploring a decades-long feud that pitted Albert Einstein against the French savant Henri Bergson, (...)
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