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13Historical Approach and Scale Reconstruction of Two Medieval Mechanisms from “The Book of Secrets”Foundations of Science 29 (1): 105-124. 2024.Abstract“The Book of Secrets in the Results of Ideas”, usually called “The Book of Secrets” is a codex containing drawings and descriptions of thirty-one artifacts attributed to the engineer Alī Ibn Khalaf al-Murādī, who lived in Andalusia in southern Spain at the beginning of the 11th century. This manuscript is one of the first written testimonies that describe medieval mechanisms with complex precision. The aim of this work is to reconstruct and study from a historical and technological point…Read more
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5Obstacles to Mathematization in Physics: The Case of the DifferentialScience & Education 24 (5-6): 591-613. 2015.
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15Mechanical Wits Used in the America Colonization: Engineering AssessmentFoundations of Science 29 (1): 41-58. 2024.The first European settlements in the new world faced technical issues with the help of the XVI century scientific advances. Besides briefly exposing the scientific and technological situation, this paper explores, with the help of reverse engineering, two singular mechanical wits representative of the technological advances introduced in America to overcome different problems. Firstly, a pump, based on an alternative movement system through crankshafts and pistons used against the continuous fl…Read more
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6La polis literaria: El boom, la Revolución y otras polémicas de la Guerra Fría, de Rafael Rojas (2018), Taurus, 280 pCo-herencia 18 (34): 435-437. 2021.En el devenir de las artes visuales en Colombia, la preocupación por los efectos de los fenómenos de la violencia ha sido recurrente. Lamirada de los artistas se ha valido de diferentes lenguajes expresivos y formas de traducción, con el interés de construir una estrecha relación entre la naturaleza de las obras y el acontecer de los propios fenómenos sociales.
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7Lepcis Magna and the Roman Proconsuls in the Julio-Claudian Period: Cooperation and DependenceHistória 70 (3): 351. 2021.
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15COVID-19 Confinement and Health Risk Behaviors in SpainFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.The World Health Organization has declared a world pandemic due to COVID-19. In response, most affected countries have enacted measures involving compulsory confinement and restrictions on free movement, which likely influence citizens' lifestyles. This study investigates changes in health risk behaviors with duration of confinement. An online cross-sectional survey served to collect data about the Spanish adult population regarding health behaviors during the first 3 weeks of confinement. A lar…Read more
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Claremont, California, United States of America