Ausência e presença da produção de ciência no Brasil Colonial entre 1530 e 1759: aspectos históricos e ontológicos

Abstract

This work is about the real conditions of scientific production in a good part of the Brazilian colonial period, in order to put its historical limits and consistencies on the agenda. Using the dialectical historical materialist method, it was concluded that the facts implying the absence of scientific practice in this period are related to the whole of the structural limitations imposed by the policies arising from the Colonial Pact. Furthermore, understanding the concept of “science” in a more complex way, it is possible to verify the existence of scientific activity in the respective period.