HASTAC Commons | Rodrigo Fernos | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/rfernos/activity/ Activity feed for Rodrigo Fernos. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:29:14 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 8561709153f1b9d48c6c6a5594f50004 Rodrigo Fernos deposited El Primer Congreso Científico Pan Americano, 1908 in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850820/ Sat, 01 Jul 2023 02:24:08 +0000 Summary of the book “Science Still Born” (2001), presented at the XXIst International Congress of History of Science, Mexico City, Mexico, July 8-14, 2001. // Resumen del libro “Amistad y Progreso” (2001), presentado en el XXI Congreso Internacional de la Historia de la Ciencia, Ciudad de Mexico, 8-14 de julio del 2001.

]]> 0 3ae96172eaefa98c61751f057ffc4c36 Rodrigo Fernos deposited El Primer Congreso Científico Pan Americano, 1908 in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850819/ Sat, 01 Jul 2023 02:24:05 +0000 Summary of the book “Science Still Born” (2001), presented at the XXIst International Congress of History of Science, Mexico City, Mexico, July 8-14, 2001. // Resumen del libro “Amistad y Progreso” (2001), presentado en el XXI Congreso Internacional de la Historia de la Ciencia, Ciudad de Mexico, 8-14 de julio del 2001.

]]> 0 41f399b3ccf3c5f94a5b7849ced0e674 Rodrigo Fernos deposited El Primer Congreso Científico Pan Americano, 1908 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850786/ Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:48:10 +0000 Summary of the book “Science Still Born” (2001), presented at the XXIst International Congress of History of Science, Mexico City, Mexico, July 8-14, 2001. // Resumen del libro “Amistad y Progreso” (2001), presentado en el XXI Congreso Internacional de la Historia de la Ciencia, Ciudad de Mexico, 8-14 de julio del 2001.

]]> 0 233954245d8adb09dc4360b509cba1f9 Rodrigo Fernos deposited The Antipodes of Tropical Medicine: The Social Factors Affecting the Diffusion of Parasitology to Puerto Rico and Hong Kong in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1841446/ Fri, 14 Apr 2023 02:23:39 +0000 This study seeks to understand the role played by social factors in the diffusion of parasitology to Puerto Rico, in particular those affecting the work of Bailey K. Ashford between 1898-1934. Most studies of Ashford to date focus mainly on the intellectual framework per se, and rarely on the surrounding social environment. In order to achieve…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ec4260a859f4592c336d772046eeeb3 Rodrigo Fernos deposited The Antipodes of Tropical Medicine: The Social Factors Affecting the Diffusion of Parasitology to Puerto Rico and Hong Kong https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1841246/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:24:11 +0000 This study seeks to understand the role played by social factors in the diffusion of parasitology to Puerto Rico, in particular those affecting the work of Bailey K. Ashford between 1898-1934. Most studies of Ashford to date focus mainly on the intellectual framework per se, and rarely on the surrounding social environment. In order to achieve…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b999f4751a08a7e5dda03c9e7cf5149 Rodrigo Fernos deposited Presentación del libro “Atomic Surfer in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760789/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 02:25:03 +0000 Presentación del libro “Atomic Surfer” [CANCELADA] Librería Mágica
11 de diciembre de 2021

]]> 0 e8d465b587f29dc9b323caa20af1582d Rodrigo Fernos deposited Presentación del libro “Atomic Surfer in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760788/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 02:25:01 +0000 Presentación del libro “Atomic Surfer” [CANCELADA] Librería Mágica
11 de diciembre de 2021

]]> 0 abe509c0ebed1b25c755e693dfac3c3e Rodrigo Fernos deposited Presentación del libro “Atomic Surfer https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760674/ Mon, 06 Dec 2021 16:00:16 +0000 Presentación del libro “Atomic Surfer” [CANCELADA] Librería Mágica
11 de diciembre de 2021

]]> 0 ed6892396c0c78b1fdf681f0d3af8914 Rodrigo Fernos created the doc Presentación del libro “Atomic Surfer” in the group History of Science in Puerto Rico https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760672/ Mon, 06 Dec 2021 15:55:54 +0000 0 f4ceca031016f3dd0b17a7f74b5c0de7 Rodrigo Fernos's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760383/ Thu, 02 Dec 2021 14:32:38 +0000 0 92de3b9f2130ab08e48ba1535a0f8bc6 Rodrigo Fernos deposited Medicine and International Relations in the Caribbean: Some Historical Variants in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739065/ Sat, 22 May 2021 02:23:41 +0000 Medicine has long framed race relations in the Caribbean-that basin where African and European cultures have met from the beginning of the Colonial Period to the twentieth century. Whether Sir Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum and President of the Royal Society of London, who as a physician wrote about African medical beliefs and…[Read more]

]]> 0 89b5200dca7309b6437025414c1a7b56 Rodrigo Fernos deposited Medicine and International Relations in the Caribbean: Some Historical Variants in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739064/ Sat, 22 May 2021 02:23:39 +0000 Medicine has long framed race relations in the Caribbean-that basin where African and European cultures have met from the beginning of the Colonial Period to the twentieth century. Whether Sir Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum and President of the Royal Society of London, who as a physician wrote about African medical beliefs and…[Read more]

]]> 0 a9c1034fc86180bb9e82e351f08edc74 Rodrigo Fernos deposited “NUESTRA TELEFÓNICA”: LA NACIONALIZACIÓN DE LA PUERTO RICO TELEPHONE COMPANY (PRTC), 1974 in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738976/ Fri, 21 May 2021 02:23:38 +0000 En 1974 la administración del Partido Popular bajo el gobernador Rafael Hernández Colon adquirió exitosamente la Puerto Rico Telephone Company (PRTC), cuyo dueño previo había sido el conglomerado International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT.). El estudio busca entender las causas y consecuencias de lo que se consideró ser un cambio monumental en la…[Read more]

]]> 0 de41a0127ab3d6c3452786b1d9b7a2e4 Rodrigo Fernos deposited Gonzalo Fernós Maldonado y El Espacio para la Ciencia en Puerto Rico in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738821/ Thu, 20 May 2021 02:25:21 +0000 Gonzalo Fernós Maldonado (1887-1966) fue uno de los arquitectos más destacados en Puerto Rico durante las primeras dïcadas del siglo XX, cuyos logros y habilidades lamentablemente han quedado en el olvido colectivo. Este libro, escrito por su nieto, trata de resucitar la historia de su vida en un momento histórico muy diferente al con…[Read more]

]]> 0 39ddfe622ad39a29e64bf2dd765606db Rodrigo Fernos deposited Gonzalo Fernós Maldonado y El Espacio para la Ciencia en Puerto Rico in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738820/ Thu, 20 May 2021 02:25:19 +0000 Gonzalo Fernós Maldonado (1887-1966) fue uno de los arquitectos más destacados en Puerto Rico durante las primeras dïcadas del siglo XX, cuyos logros y habilidades lamentablemente han quedado en el olvido colectivo. Este libro, escrito por su nieto, trata de resucitar la historia de su vida en un momento histórico muy diferente al con…[Read more]

]]> 0 56da2dfce91c39063bf1f420b76c9647 Rodrigo Fernos deposited Science Still Born: The Rise and Impact of the Pan American Scientific Congresses, 1898-1916 in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738818/ Thu, 20 May 2021 02:25:14 +0000 The Pan-American Scientific Congresses ushered a new scientific era in Latin America. Bringing together scientists, engineers, and medical researchers from both South and North America, they facilitated the exchange of ideas between the two regions at the beginning of the twentieth century. Nobel Prize thinkers such as Albert Michelson and others,…[Read more]

]]> 0 dca932afefc61cd7f2c0265ad03827c2 Rodrigo Fernos deposited Science Still Born: The Rise and Impact of the Pan American Scientific Congresses, 1898-1916 in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738817/ Thu, 20 May 2021 02:25:13 +0000 The Pan-American Scientific Congresses ushered a new scientific era in Latin America. Bringing together scientists, engineers, and medical researchers from both South and North America, they facilitated the exchange of ideas between the two regions at the beginning of the twentieth century. Nobel Prize thinkers such as Albert Michelson and others,…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c483009636703da7895f4513f2846e3 Rodrigo Fernos deposited Science and Sovereignty: Western Ideas about Science and Nation and their Expression in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738815/ Thu, 20 May 2021 02:25:07 +0000 Science and democracy are two of the most cherished values of Western Civilization, so much so that they are often associated with each other. With science, it is held, comes democracy. But, will democracy necessarily blossom with the seed of science? Inversely, does the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory on December 1, 2020 represent a predictor…[Read more]

]]> 0 637fc56079c4a38c8057ae7befde0636 Rodrigo Fernos deposited Science and Sovereignty: Western Ideas about Science and Nation and their Expression in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738814/ Thu, 20 May 2021 02:25:06 +0000 Science and democracy are two of the most cherished values of Western Civilization, so much so that they are often associated with each other. With science, it is held, comes democracy. But, will democracy necessarily blossom with the seed of science? Inversely, does the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory on December 1, 2020 represent a predictor…[Read more]

]]> 0 6c14696ba556a5266556f4199f60a821 Rodrigo Fernos deposited From Galileo to Boltzmann: A History of the Fragility and Resilience of Science in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738812/ Thu, 20 May 2021 02:25:01 +0000 When the same $9 billion allocated to a nation’s annual budget (Puerto Rico 2015) is spent on a single scientific instrument (Hubble telescope) or to administer a single scientific facility for a year (CERN), we might presume that science is today a monolithic enterprise, akin to what the pyramids of Ancient Egypt had been in their day. Yet when…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e7eeb21e2d3b1cf1d3594df30659ba5 Rodrigo Fernos deposited From Galileo to Boltzmann: A History of the Fragility and Resilience of Science in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738811/ Thu, 20 May 2021 02:24:59 +0000 When the same $9 billion allocated to a nation’s annual budget (Puerto Rico 2015) is spent on a single scientific instrument (Hubble telescope) or to administer a single scientific facility for a year (CERN), we might presume that science is today a monolithic enterprise, akin to what the pyramids of Ancient Egypt had been in their day. Yet when…[Read more]

]]> 0 a265618a87cfb01b073b5cfa4ffd794f Rodrigo Fernos deposited Amistad y Progreso: Los Congresos Científicos Pan-Americanos, 1898-1916 in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738810/ Thu, 20 May 2021 02:24:54 +0000 Los Congresos Científicos Pan-Americanos abrieron una nueva época de intercambio científico no solamente dentro de los pa?ses de América Latina sino entre estos y los Estados Unidos. Figuras importantes como Albert. A. Michelson, ganador del Premio Nobel en 1907, regularmente atendieron estas conferencias, así ayudando a difundir los últimos avanc…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca90ebcc92587a62c91f94294d7ad315 Rodrigo Fernos deposited Amistad y Progreso: Los Congresos Científicos Pan-Americanos, 1898-1916 in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738809/ Thu, 20 May 2021 02:24:53 +0000 Los Congresos Científicos Pan-Americanos abrieron una nueva época de intercambio científico no solamente dentro de los pa?ses de América Latina sino entre estos y los Estados Unidos. Figuras importantes como Albert. A. Michelson, ganador del Premio Nobel en 1907, regularmente atendieron estas conferencias, así ayudando a difundir los últimos avanc…[Read more]

]]> 0 9d62c62509eb5a4d3db66c7b1b8b6c60 Rodrigo Fernos deposited Biology and Ethics in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738808/ Thu, 20 May 2021 02:24:47 +0000 Biology and Ethics provides a historian’s perspective of the attempts to ground an ethics within a biological framework. Aside from its analysis of schools as social Darwinism, eugenics, and sociobiology, it attempts to evaluate their veracity using cases as Japan’s Unit 731, the Guatemala Syphilis study, and others. In spite of the much disputed…[Read more]

]]> 0 290c05c718b1b0b1f45715dc87161cd5 Rodrigo Fernos deposited Biology and Ethics in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738807/ Thu, 20 May 2021 02:24:46 +0000 Biology and Ethics provides a historian’s perspective of the attempts to ground an ethics within a biological framework. Aside from its analysis of schools as social Darwinism, eugenics, and sociobiology, it attempts to evaluate their veracity using cases as Japan’s Unit 731, the Guatemala Syphilis study, and others. In spite of the much disputed…[Read more]

]]> 0 8a4474df7bc6c49436df495e9746e0e6 Rodrigo Fernos deposited Gonzalo Fernós Maldonado y El Espacio para la Ciencia en Puerto Rico https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738411/ Sun, 16 May 2021 03:29:40 +0000 Gonzalo Fernós Maldonado (1887-1966) fue uno de los arquitectos más destacados en Puerto Rico durante las primeras dïcadas del siglo XX, cuyos logros y habilidades lamentablemente han quedado en el olvido colectivo. Este libro, escrito por su nieto, trata de resucitar la historia de su vida en un momento histórico muy diferente al con…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b5dc281e856ccc34806052d673893f6 Rodrigo Fernos deposited Science Still Born: The Rise and Impact of the Pan American Scientific Congresses, 1898-1916 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738402/ Sun, 16 May 2021 01:11:34 +0000 The Pan-American Scientific Congresses ushered a new scientific era in Latin America. Bringing together scientists, engineers, and medical researchers from both South and North America, they facilitated the exchange of ideas between the two regions at the beginning of the twentieth century. Nobel Prize thinkers such as Albert Michelson and others,…[Read more]

]]> 0 63f52a6daa3490291bc229e7c5c7fbd0 Rodrigo Fernos deposited Medicine and International Relations in the Caribbean: Some Historical Variants https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738401/ Sun, 16 May 2021 01:05:20 +0000 Medicine has long framed race relations in the Caribbean-that basin where African and European cultures have met from the beginning of the Colonial Period to the twentieth century. Whether Sir Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum and President of the Royal Society of London, who as a physician wrote about African medical beliefs and…[Read more]

]]> 0 fdfdda24c08e450b8c24fc1046d20d14 Rodrigo Fernos deposited "Nuestra telefónica": La nacionalización de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company (PRTC), 1974 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738400/ Sun, 16 May 2021 00:59:42 +0000 En 1974 la administración del Partido Popular bajo el gobernador Rafael Hernández Colon adquirió exitosamente la Puerto Rico Telephone Company (PRTC), cuyo dueño previo había sido el conglomerado International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT.). El estudio busca entender las causas y consecuencias de lo que se consideró ser un cambio monumental en la…[Read more]

]]> 0 3fb4bb00d4017c990f5266c52917b6e1 Rodrigo Fernos deposited Science and Sovereignty: Western Ideas about Science and Nation and their Expression in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738399/ Sun, 16 May 2021 00:51:36 +0000 Science and democracy are two of the most cherished values of Western Civilization, so much so that they are often associated with each other. With science, it is held, comes democracy. But, will democracy necessarily blossom with the seed of science? Inversely, does the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory on December 1, 2020 represent a…[Read more]

]]> 0 34a98980d80a91b357a901b23034ec71 Rodrigo Fernos deposited From Galileo to Boltzmann: A History of the Fragility and Resilience of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738398/ Sun, 16 May 2021 00:38:38 +0000 When the same $9 billion allocated to a nation’s annual budget (Puerto Rico 2015) is spent on a single scientific instrument (Hubble telescope) or to administer a single scientific facility for a year (CERN), we might presume that science is today a monolithic enterprise, akin to what the pyramids of Ancient Egypt had been in their day. Yet when…[Read more]

]]> 0 e91b1fca6c2cde58571bf584b91ed645 Rodrigo Fernos deposited Amistad y Progreso: Los Congresos Científicos Pan-Americanos, 1898-1916 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738396/ Sat, 15 May 2021 23:51:05 +0000 Los Congresos Científicos Pan-Americanos abrieron una nueva época de intercambio científico no solamente dentro de los pa?ses de América Latina sino entre estos y los Estados Unidos. Figuras importantes como Albert. A. Michelson, ganador del Premio Nobel en 1907, regularmente atendieron estas conferencias, así ayudando a difundir los últimos avanc…[Read more]

]]> 0 82f3158fb1213acc341c6f14a6e03767 Rodrigo Fernos deposited Biology and Ethics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738395/ Sat, 15 May 2021 23:43:03 +0000 Biology and Ethics provides a historian’s perspective of the attempts to ground an ethics within a biological framework. Aside from its analysis of schools as social Darwinism, eugenics, and sociobiology, it attempts to evaluate their veracity using cases as Japan’s Unit 731, the Guatemala Syphilis study, and others. In spite of the much disputed…[Read more]

]]> 0 3d88f25bbdd976887b6cfe3f4c7a6c4a Rodrigo Fernos's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1737321/ Wed, 05 May 2021 16:11:40 +0000 0 b5dbc95d9586c235ad67d105f61672c3 Rodrigo Fernos's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1724888/ Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:55:33 +0000 0 7e393133a52877c5453ca837a511e0ec Rodrigo Fernos started the topic ¿Nuevos libros en historia de la ciencia en Puerto Rico? in the discussion History of Science in Puerto Rico https://hcommons.org/groups/history-of-science-in-puerto-rico/forum/topic/nuevos-libros-en-historia-de-la-ciencia-en-puerto-rico/ Sat, 14 Dec 2019 01:41:41 +0000 ¿Saben de algunos nuevos libros o artículos en la historia de la ciencia de Puerto Rico?

]]> 0 04a97db227d764b05ad518533dc8031e Rodrigo Fernos created the group History of Science in Puerto Rico https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1672609/ Sat, 14 Dec 2019 01:35:00 +0000 0