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The speech introducing the session on the history of science at a 1983 colloquium on the history of ideas in Oxford, England, is presented. The main concerns of scientific thought in the West are outlined, from the time of the ancient Greeks to the present, focusing on landmark ideas such as those of the eighteenth-century French philosophers & of Charles Darwin. The process by which scientific ideas are absorbed by a society & interact with its existing beliefs is examined. C. Waters

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Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Barcelona historical timeline -- Map 1: Barcelona in 1888 -- Introduction / Oliver Hochadel and Agustø Nieto-Galan -- Control : elite cultures -- Civic nature : the transformation of the Parc de la Ciutadella into a space for popular science / Oliver Hochadel and Laura Valls -- Reconstructing the martorell : donors and spaces in the quest for hegemony within the natural history museum / Ferran Aragon and José Pardo-Tomás -- Laboratory medicine and surgical enterprise in the medical landscape of the eixample district / Alfons Zarzoso and Àlvar Martønez-Vidal -- Technological fun : the politics and geographies of amusement parks / Jaume Sastre-Juan and Jaume ValentineS-Álvarez -- Resistance counter-hegemonies -- La Rosa de Foc : anarchist culture, urban spaces, and the management of scientific knowledge in a divided city / Álvaro Girón Sierra and Jorge Molero-Mesa -- The city of spirits : spiritism, feminism and the secularization of urban spaces / Mònica Balltondre and Andrea Graus -- Anatomy of the urban underworld : medical geography of the Barrio Chino / Alfons Zarzoso and José Pardo-Tomás -- Networks : experts and amateurs -- The sky above the city : observatories, amateurs and urban astronomy / Antoni Roca-Rosell and Pedro Ruiz-Castell -- The city in waves : Radio Barcelona and urban everyday life / Carlos Tabernero and Meritxell Guzmán -- The city of electric light : experts and users at the 1929 international exhibition and beyond / Jordi Ferran and Agustø Nieto-Galan -- Map 2: Barcelona in 1929 -- Index