La tesis doctoral trata sobre la enseñanza de la física en el siglo XIX en España, prestando especial atención al desarrollo de los instrumentos en manuales y gabinetes escolares.
RESUMEN: Se han estudiado colecciones de instrumentos de física que formaron parte de los antiguos gabinetes escolares españoles. A fin de realizar contrastes, se han considerado igualmente manuales de física de la época, laboratorios de investigación y laboratorios escolares actuales. Para ello se ha aplicado un esquema clasificatorio basado en criterios didácticos. Se obtiene así un perfil global para cada colección que pone de manifiesto la existencia de varios patrones característicos. Tales aportaciones contribuyen a un mejor conocimiento de la enseñanza de la física en el pasado, especialmente en la España del siglo XIX.PALABRAS CLAVE: instrumentos antiguos, gabinetes escolares, enseñanza de la física en España, historia de la ciencia, siglo XIX.ABSTRACT: This article describes a study of collections of physics instruments in Spanish schools. In order to compare the collections, an analysis was performed of physics textbooks of the 19th century as well as of instruments in research laboratories, and modern school laboratories. For this purpose a classification scheme, based on didactic criteria, was applied. In this way, we obtained a profile for each collection, which highlights the existence of a set of characteristic patterns. The results of our study contribute to a deeper knowledge of how physics was taught in the past, and especially in Spain in the 19th century.KEY WORDS: early scientific instruments; physics cabinet; physics teaching in Spain; history of science; 19th century.
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