The great explorers: Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Magellan. The drawing and form of the globe. Three major discoveries: geometry, Thales of Miletus; the law of gravity, Galileo; microbiology,...

Prehistory, Egypt, Mesopotamia. Knowledge in the prehistoric period. The advent of the great civilizations. The emergence of the main scientific disciplines in Egypt and Mesopotamia through myths,...

There is no science without exchange. Representation and communication have both motivated and supported science throughout its history. From Mesopotamian tablets to virtual images, a history and...

The origins and history of chemistry. Was Newton an alchemist? The birth of scientific chemistry in the works of Lavoisier; Mendeleev and the table of the elements.

Ancient Greece. The "Greek miracle." The development of the sciences of geometry, astronomy, and physics: Thales, Pythagoras, Archimedes, and Eratosthenes.

From the origins to the present day. Galileo, Kepler, Newton. From the geocentric hypothesis to the infinite universe. The human vision of the cosmos: around the world, around the sky.

Theories about the nature of life and its reproduction—the beginning of the mastery of biological principles in agriculture—Pasteur and Mendel: the shift from agriculture to science.