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| | Men of science in Brazil: colonial empires and the circulation of information (1780-1810) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | A self-legitimized scientific field was one of the corollaries of the European Enlightenment, a process that involved at least two generations of men of science and, most importantly, whose success relied on the engagement of the State. |
 | | This process did not transpire systematically in Brazil, although many of the country’s men of science were well abreast of the Enlightenment’s most modern philosophical and scientific theories. |
 | | Policies to foster scientific activities in Brazil did not occur in tandem with broad, deep transformations in the spheres of administration, sociability, institutions, economics, or culture. |
| www.coc.fiocruz.br /hscience/vol11_esp/resumo5_ing.html (173 words) |
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