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This book is very appropriate for a study of the role of science in this period of Barcelona's history. It is much more than a collective volume; it is an impressive academic collaborative effort. At the same time, it is generally a very accessible, easy read and very rich and diverse in the topics addressed, in the sources and approaches used, and in its analyses of Barcelona's history. (...) This book is a major contribution to existing scholarly works in several areas: General History of Barcelona, History of Science in Barcelona and the relation between Urban Studies and History of Science. The contributions suggest a great amount of work behind them and clearly show how science was practised, taught, popularized, used and even sold in this period in Barcelona. - Miquel Carandell Baruzzi, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona - Centre d'Historia de la Ciencia CEHIC in Metascience, 2017 all the ten chapters share -despite the diverse historiographical traditions of the authors and the particularities of each case study - similar historical sensibilities, a high level of historiographical sophistication, and rich and innovative historical sources. This coherence of the volume is the consequence of true teamwork and academic and editorial excellence. - Stefan Pohl Valero, Universidad del Rosario

This book is very appropriate for a study of the role of science in this period of Barcelona's history. It is much more than a collective volume; it is an impressive academic collaborative effort. At the same time, it is generally a very accessible, easy read and very rich and diverse in the topics addressed, in the sources and approaches used, and in its analyses of Barcelona's history. (...) This book is a major contribution to existing scholarly works in several areas: General History of Barcelona, History of Science in Barcelona and the relation between Urban Studies and History of Science. The contributions suggest a great amount of work behind them and clearly show how science was practised, taught, popularized, used and even sold in this period in Barcelona. - Miquel Carandell Baruzzi, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona - Centre d'Historia de la Ciencia CEHIC in Metascience, 2017 all the ten chapters share -despite the diverse historiographical traditions of the authors and the particularities of each case study - similar historical sensibilities, a high level of historiographical sophistication, and rich and innovative historical sources. This coherence of the volume is the consequence of true teamwork and academic and editorial excellence. - Stefan Pohl Valero, Universidad del Rosario

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Oliver Hochadel is a Tenured Historian of Science at the Institució Milà i Fontanals, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientí­ficas (IMF-CSIC), Barcelona. His research focuses on the relationship between science and its publics. Book publications include El mito de Atapuerca. Orí­genes, ciencia, divulgación (2013), Playing with Fire. Histories of the Lightning Rod (edited with Peter Heering and David Rhees, 2009) and Öffentliche Wissenschaft. Elektrizität in der deutschen Aufklärung (2003). Agustí­ Nieto-Galan is Associate Professor of the History of Science, Director of the Centre d’História de la Ciència (CEHIC) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and ICREA-Acadèmia fellow (2009). He has written widely on the history of chemistry and natural dyestuffs, and on the history of science popularization (eighteenth to twentieth centuries). He is currently working on several aspects of science popularization and urban history of science in Europe. His book Science in the Public Sphere was published in March 2016.

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