i ISSN 2526-2270 Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Federal University of Minas Gerais) www.ufmg.br Department of History http://historia.fafich.ufmg.br/depto Graduate Program in History www.historia.fafich.ufmg.br Scientia – Group for Theory and History of Science http://www.fafich.ufmg.br/scientia Editorial Board Alberto Cupani, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil Ana Simões, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Antonio Augusto Passos Videira, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Antonio Clericuzio, Rome Tre University, Rome, Italy Bernardo Jefferson de Oliveira, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Betânia Gonçalves Figueiredo, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Carlos Alvarez Maia, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Dagmar Schäfer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany David Östlund, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden Eduardo Salles de O. Barra, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil Eric Scerri, UCLA, Los Angeles, United States Francisco Vazquez Garcia, University of Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain Gérard Jorland, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris, France Helge Kragh, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark Ilana Löwy, French Institute of Health and Medical Research, Paris, France Jean-François Braunstein, University of Paris – Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France Joseph Agassi, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel Karine Chemla, University Paris Diderot, Paris, France Luiz Carlos Soares, Federal University o Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Mario de Caro, Rome Tre University, Rome, Italy Martin Kusch, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria