1. The Genesis of Science in Antiquity
2. Aspects of the development of ideas in physics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
3. Physical sciences in Portugal in the seventeenth century
4. The ideas in physics in scientific literature in the century of the Enlightenment
5. The Physical Mathematical Sciences in the context of education in the eighteenth and nineteenth
6. The evolution of scientific instruments in the eighteenth and nineteenth
7. Physics in Portugal in the eighteenth and nineteenth

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