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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Trabajos de cristal es un conjunto de ensayos y artículos, reunidos por primera vez y traducidos al castellano, de uno de los grandes historiadores de la ciencia, Simon Schaffer. Los episodios aquí descritos comprenden desde unas portentosas transfusiones de sangre animal en la Inglaterra de la Restauración, hasta las ideas físicas y los intereses comerciales que impulsaron el negocio de las pompas de jabón en la era victoriana, pasando por las vicisitudes del experimento crucial de la óptica newtoniana, el secreto del autómata ilustrado que jugaba al ajedrez o la extraña vida social...

Siglo XI, Bilad al-Maghrib, el País del Sol Poniente. Situado entre Europa al Norte, y Bilad al-Sudan, el País de los Negros, al Sur. La poderosa fuerza de la religión prende en Yahya ibn Ibrahim, retornando de La Meca con el derviche Abdallah ibn Yassin. Juntos, emprenden su movimiento integrista, con poco éxito. Tras un retiro en una ribat de la isla atlántica de Tidra, emergen a la Historia al frente del movimiento al-Murabitun, los del convento. Sus luchas no tardarán en ser conocidas por los reinos cristianos de la península Ibérica, que los conocen como los Almorávides. El...