THE RECEPTION OF THE THEORIES OF RELATIVITY IN COLOMBIA

ISBN-13: 9786204254951 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str.

Lina Del Pilar Hernández Sepúlveda

Opis

This book is framed in a historical study from the perspective of the recontextualization of knowledge about the reception of the theories of special relativity (SRT) and general relativity (GRT) in the early twentieth century in Colombia. Showing mainly the work of the academy of the time, prominent people, scientific institutions, dissemination of original writings and their teaching. This study demonstrates the importance of the history of science in the educational context as another form of teaching and the importance of studying the positions of the physics of Colombian scientists. In addition, it implicitly shows the role that can be played as historians by physics graduates and those who are trained in this professional career, this oriented in the recognition of the past and the social dynamics under which the different theories were created, consolidated and received in Colombia, covering the understanding of some physical phenomena.

O autorze

Hernández Sepúlveda, Lina Del PilarLina Del Pilar Hernández Sepúlveda, Bachelor in Physics and Specialist in Science Teaching for the Basic level of the National Pedagogical University of Colombia. She likes the history of science and historical studies of different physical phenomena.