A história das ciências no Liceu do Ceará: entre atos e fatos – denúncias do professor Rodolfo Teófilo

Abstract

This study focuses on a historical period of political action Accioly Government in the early years of the nineteenth century , the Liceu of Ceará, based on analysis of documents , acts and regulations of the education reform that government, hoping to unveil his despotic conduct from the case of a pursuit initiated to Professor of Natural Sciences of that educational establishment, Rodolfo Teófilo. Features that event, from an account of the persecution teacher, which still portrays its defense initiative, through documents filed against the government, and their indignation at what was titled Aciolina reform . From this focus is possible to observe the intentions and disputes of local politics interfering in the directions of education that Liceu, through an action certainly disastrous consequences for the teaching of science at that time, which presents itself as a troublesome area for oligarchic power founded on tradition and contrary to modern scientific knowledge .