Jorge Davila

The removal of water from mines was one of the key issues that former miners had to deal with. Roman colonists brought new technology to the Iberian Peninsula that addressed this problem. However, they did not invent this technology because it had already been applied to the growth of other endeavours in the Hellenistic society throughout the Eastern Mediterranean. In the mine, the Archimedes screw, waterwheels, bucket pulleys, and Ctesibius pumps were the primary drainage systems. In this essay, the primary characteristics, and modes of operation of machines are examined. Without leaving out the most significant finds made in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, one of the regions with the longest history of mining exploitation. To serve as a foundation for future research in this field, this work compares the primary mining mechanisms in ancient Huelva on a qualitative and quantitative level by the implementation of a TOPSIS methodology, a multi-criteria decision analysis method.

En este ensayo se propone una comprensión de la visión que construyó Foucault sobre la reflexión filosófica en torno a la ética. Se destaca la importancia del libro “Las palabras y las cosas” en esa construcción. Más concretamente se propone que hay una continuidad en los trabajos finales de la investigación sobre la filosofía antigua con los problemas planteados de acuerdo con la investigación arqueológica del libro de 1966. Esa continuidad se analiza en la dimensión de la genealogía del humanismo, base de una concepción de la condición humana como errancia, y de los desarrollos en relación con el ejercicio de un discurso verdadero como ética de la palabra.