H O ST
journal of HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Vol.2, Fall 2008
Editorial Board
Tiago Saraiva (Institute of Social Sciences — University of Lisbon), Editor-in-chief
Ana Carneiro (Faculty of Sciences and Technology — New University of Lisbon), Book
Review Editor, Maria Paula Diogo (Faculty of Sciences and Technology — New
University of Lisbon), Henrique Leitão (Faculty of Sciences — University of Lisbon),
Ana Cardoso de Matos (University of Évora), Ana Simões (Faculty of Sciences —
University of Lisbon)
Advisory Board
Cristiana Bastos (University of Lisbon), Jim Bennett (University of Oxford), José
Luís Cardoso (Technical University of Lisbon), Pietro Corsi (University of
Cambridge), Gary Downey (Virginia Tech), David Edgerton (Imperial College),
Silvia Figueiroa (UniCamp), Augusto Fitas (University of Évora), Anne Françoise
Garçon (Université Paris I), Kostas Gavroglou (Athens University), Fernando
Bragança Gil (Univeristy of Lisbon), Irina Gouzévitch (Centre Alexandre Koyré),
Arne Kaijser (Royal Institute of Technology — Stockholm), Deepak Kumar (New
Dehli — Jawaharlal Nehru University), Antonio Lafuente (Spanish Council of
Scientific Research — Madrid), Marta Lourenço (University of Lisbon), Agustí
Nieto-Galán (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona), João Arriscado Nunes
(University of Coimbra) , Fátima Nunes (University of Évora), Diana Obregón
(Universidad nacional de Colômbia), Javier Ordoñez (Universidad Autónoma de
Madrid), Antoine Picon (Harvard University), Rui Pitta (University of Coimbra),
Jürgen Renn (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), Antoni Roca Rosell
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), António Manuel Nunes dos Santos (New
University of Lisbon), Johan Schot (Eindhoven University of Technology), Álvaro
Ferreira da Silva (New University of Lisbon), Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
(Université Paris X / Massachusetts Institute of Technology), M. Norton Wise
(University of California Los Angeles)
Agostino Aglio, Engraving of the 1824 Ancient Mexico
exhibition, a collection of New World antiquities,
organised by William Bullock at the Egyptian Hall,
Piccadilly, London, 1824.
Journal of History of Science and Technology – Vol.2, Fall 2008
Published by: Institute of Social Sciences (ICS) – University of Lisbon; Interuniversitary
Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIHCT) – Faculty of Sciences
(University of Lisbon) and Faculty of Sciences and Technology (New University of Lisbon);
Interdisciplinary Centre for History, Cultures and Society
(CIDEHUS) – University of Évora.
Design & production by grandecena.com
Lisbon, December 2008
HoST , Vol. 2, Fall 2008
editorial note
Tiago Saraiva
7
articles
The emergence of early modern Commons:
Technology, Heritage and Enlightenment
Antonio Lafuente & Nuria Valverde
13
Circulation or (re)enactment?
Performing the Variable Virulence/Pathogenicity of
Helicobacter Pylori
João Arriscado Nunes
43
Rationalizing maintenance activities within French
industry during the Trente Glorieuses (1945-75)
Konstantinos Chatzis
75
From India to Brazil, with a microscope and a seat in
Parliament:
the life and work of Dr. Indalêncio Froilano de Melo
Cristiana Bastos
143
work in progress
Portugal and the Building of Atlantic Telegraph Networks
– the role of a loser or a winner?
Ana Paula Silva
191
reviews
James A. Secord, Victorian Sensation:
The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret
Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
213
Ana Simões, Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Carneiro,
Cidadão do Mundo. Uma Biografia Científica do
Abade Correia da Serra
218
Lorraine Daston, ed., Things that Talk.
Object Lessons from Art and Science
222
José Luís Cardoso
Palmira Costa
Isabel Amaral, A Emergência da Bioquímica em Portugal: As
Escolas de Investigação de Marck Athias e de Kurt Jacobsohn 225
José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez