Physical Science in Barcelona
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Physics in Perspective
The Physical Tourist Physical Science in Barcelona Antoni Roca-Rosell and Xavier Roque´* We provide a tour of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, following four routes through the city and one elsewhere in the city and beyond, focusing on sites of importance in physics. Route 1 covers the Old Town, its Gothic Quarter, Plac¸a del Rei, Plac¸a de Sant Jaume, and Jewish Quarter. Route 2 identifies sites on and close to La Rambla, the main promenade in the city. Route 3 goes from the medieval shipyards to the Board of Commerce to Citadel Park. Route 4 concentrates on the Extension (Eixample) and covers the restored University, the Industrial University, and the new campus of the University of Barcelona. Elsewhere in the city and beyond are the Fabra Observatory; the Plac¸a de les Glo`ries with its large steel sculpture depicting the meridian arc from Dunkirk to Barcelona; Montjuı¨c, the site of the National Art Museum of Catalonia; and the National Museum of Science and Technology in Terrassa.
Key words: Ferran Alsina i Parallada; Albert Billeter; Ildefons Cerda` i Sunyer; Toma`s Cerda`; Antoni Cibat i Arnauto´; Josep Comas i Sola`; Albert Einstein; Eduard Fontsere` i Riba; Bernat de Granollachs; Rafael Guastavino; Abraham bar Hiyya; Pierre Me´chain; Narcı´s Monturiol i Estarriol; George Orwell; Santiago Ramo´n y Cajal; Francesc Salva` i Campillo; Francesc Santponc¸ i Roca; Francesc Subira`s; Esteve Terradas i Illa; Jesu´s M. Tharrats; Tables of Barcelona; University of Barcelona; Industrial University; Autonomous University of Barcelona; Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona; Royal Military Academy of Mathematics; Royal Academy of Medicine; Catalan Academy of Humanities and Sciences; Catalan Society of Physics; Catalan Society of the History of Science and Technology; Catalan Science Archive Service; Catalan National Library; Maritime Museum; Fabra Observatory; International Exhibition of 1888; Universal Exhibition of 1929; history of physics and astronomy.
Barcelona The informed physical tourist will book a window seat on the right-hand side of the airplane, since in approaching the airport, flying southwest along the coast of * Antoni Roca-Rosell, physicist and historian of science, has published extensively on the history of the physical sciences and technology in Catalonia and Spain. Xavier Roque´ (corresponding author) trained as a physicist and historian of science; his research interests are in the history of the 20th-century physical sciences and the cultural relations of physics.
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Catalonia, Spain, the layout of Barcelona becomes apparent: the Olympic Village and Harbor on a stretch of land that once housed many of the city’s factories and iron works; the old harbor and medieval shipyards at the end of the maze of streets making up the Old Town (Ciutat Vella); La Rambla, the long tree-lined promenade going up from the sea to the core of the city; and above all of them the square-like grid of the Extension (Eixample) that Ildef
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