History of Science

“When and where was such and such other thing discovered? By whom?” The answers to this kind of questions, while possibly interesting, add little to the understanding of science. They are chronologies, not history.

DIPC, together with the group Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (iHPS) of the University of the Basque Country (EHU), organizes a monthly colloquium with professional historians of science aimed at broadening the formative activities of scientific researchers as well as reaching out to the general public on matters related to the history of science.

These seminars will help better understand the multifarious ways in which specific scientific theories, disciplines or institutions have come into being, evolved or even disappeared. They will also address the interactions between science and other cultural activities and explore past and present societal roles of specific sciences or science at large.

The semianr will be held in Spanish in the DIPC auditorium.

Note: The image corresponds to the caricature of Darwin's theory in the Punch almanac for 1882, published at the end of 1881 when Charles Darwin had recently published his last book, "The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms".

Organized seminars:

Aitor Anduaga (EHU, Ikerbasque)
"Jesuitas y ciencia: su aportación a la predicción ciclónica" - 23/04/2026

Jaume Navarro (EHU, Ikerbasque)
"Einstein, Relatividad y … ¿Antisemitismo?" - 04/05/2026

José Luis Granados (EHU)
"La época que no fue: por qué los geólogos rechazaron formalizar el Antropoceno (y qué nos enseña sobre los valores de la ciencia)" - 11/06/2026