The José Celestino Mutis Fund (1732-1808) of the National Library of Colombia preserves several scientific periodicals such as Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, Mémoires de Trévoux, Mémoires de l'Académie Royale de Chirurgie de Paris, Kongl swenska wetenskaps academiens handlingar and Journal de Physique. In this paper, we intend to document the circulation of these European journals in New Granada (now Colombia) in the second half of the eighteenth century. We will study their role in the communication, dissemination, and appropriation of the Enlightenment and the new science in this territory, trying to answer the following questions: How did these publications reach American territory? What were the information and circulation networks that allowed them to be known? What elements does this information contribute to the characterization of the culture and scientific practice of Mutis and the members of the Creole elite in the emergence of the republican regime?

Prof Luis Carlos Arboleda Aparicio

(presentation in Spanish)
In the management report of the year 1954, the president of the Argentine Physics Association, Enrique Gaviola, states that no physicist member of the organization has expressed an opinion on the Richter case, either as a member or individually. This is undoubtedly a statement that is difficult to prove. This communication raises the possibility that this statement might be consistent with the reality of the documented facts. The use of irony by Gaviola on this and other occasions is also highlighted. The impact of the announcement of Richter's discovery is also discussed in the magazines “Mundo Atómico” and “Mundo Peronista”. In some articles, the failure of the experiments is perceived some time before the action of the investigative commission that marked the end of the project in 1952.

The covid-19 pandemic demonstrated that in 21st century Peru, different ways of understanding the origin of diseases coexist, as well as variety in the treatments that should be followed in the event of a pandemic crisis. Along with modern Western medicine based on science, practiced in hospitals and clinics, and historically supported by the Peruvian State, there are indigenous Andean and Amazonian medical traditions, visions more linked to the religious and spiritual, self-medication, as well as denialist positions. The objective of this research is to analyze the explanations and responses given to covid-19 in the Peruvian Amazon, specifically to show the permanence of traditional ideas in health despite state efforts to westernize health throughout Republican history.