GRHCT - Grup de Recerca d'Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica
a) Realitzar i promoure la recerca en l'àmbit de la història de la ciència i de la tècnica.
b) Estendre el coneixement dels resultats de la recerca a la UPC i a la resta del món universitari i educatiu, especialment en l'ús de la història de la ciència en l'ensenyament de les ciències.
c) Donar suport a les activitats docents i investigadores d'altres unitats i grups de la UPC que ho requereixin.
d) Fomentar la conservació, recuperació, reutilització i estudi del nostre patrimoni cultural científic, tècnic i industrial
The group's aims are as follows: a) to carry out and promote research on the history of science and technology; b) to disseminate the results of research to the School of Industrial Engineering, to the Technical University of Catalonia and to the academic world in general; c) to lend support to the teaching and research activities of the units and groups of the Technical University of Catalonia; and d) to foster the conservation, recovery, reuse and study of our cultural and technical heritage.
The group's aims are as follows: a) to carry out and promote research on the history of science and technology; b) to disseminate the results of research to the School of Industrial Engineering, to the Technical University of Catalonia and to the academic world in general; c) to lend support to the teaching and research activities of the units and groups of the Technical University of Catalonia; and d) to foster the conservation, recovery, reuse and study of our cultural and technical heritage.
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Articles de revista [61]
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Capítols de llibre [16]
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Llibres [3]
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Reports de recerca [17]
Recent Submissions
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Progressive freeze concentration of skim milk in an agitated vessel: effect of the coolant temperature and stirring rate on the process performance
(2018-10)
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Open AccessThe aim of this study was to investigate the freeze-concentration of skimmed milk by a progressive freeze concentration process. The progressive freeze concentration procedure was performed at three different temperatures ... -
Leonhard Euler (1707-1783): el mestre de tots nosaltres
(Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques (SCM), 2018-12)
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La matemática pura en los cursos militares de matemáticas de Pedro Lucuce (1739-44) y de Pedro Padilla (1753-56)
(Universidad de Alcalá, 2018)
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The circulation of scientific knowledge in Euler's first stage at Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
(Associationi Culturale Viaggiatori, 2018-06)
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Influence of severe plastic deformation in phase transformation of superduplex stainless steels
(Springer, 2019-02-01)
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Open AccessDuplex and superduplex stainless steels are characterised by high corrosion resistance and high mechanical strength. However, these steels can suffer formation of secondary brittle phases when they reach temperatures between ... -
Comentaris sobre "Analyse des infiniment petits" de l’Hospital (1696-1768): interpretació i ensenyament de conceptes fonamentals del càlcul diferencial
(Institut d'Estudis Catalans (IEC), 2018)
Conference report
Open AccessIn 1696 the Marquis de L’Hospital (1661-1704) published the ‘Analyse des infiniment petits’ pour l’intelligence des lignes courbes, the first systematic work on differential calculus. The ‘Analyse’ played a fundamental ... -
La correspondencia entre Leibniz y el marqués de l’Hospital: sobre la envolvente de una familia de curvas
(Publicacions UPC, 2018)
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The harmonic triangle in Mengoli 's and Leibniz's works
(Publicacions UPC, 2018-06-22)
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Open AccessThe harmonic triangle was defined by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646- 1716) in 1673, and its definition was related to the successive differences of the harmonic series. Leibniz studied it in many different texts throughout ... -
The main sources for the Arte Mayor in sixteenth century Spain
(2018-01-18)
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Open AccessOne of the main changes in European Renaissance mathematics was the progressive development of algebra from practical arithmetic, in which equations and operations began to be written with abbreviations and symbols rather ... -
Teaching engineers in the seventeenth century: european influences in Portugal
(2018-06-09)
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Open AccessThe practice of mathematics underwent a major transformation in the seventeenth century due to new procedures and concepts that also showed their utility for military architecture. The circulation of this knowledge can be ... -
Pietro Mengoli (1627-1686), un matemàtic singular
(Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques (SCM), 2017-12)
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Open AccessPietro Mengoli que a la seva època era anomenat el matemàtic bolonyès va ser un deixeble de Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598-1647) i va elaborar un nou mètode per calcular quadratures abans de Newton i Leibniz. -
Patrimonio de la ETSEIB. Aparatos telefónicos de 1878
(Associació del Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica i d'Arqueologia Industrial de Catalunya, 2017-12-15)
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