Brazilian publications and the development of sciences in the XIX century

Abstract

Relation between publications of Brazilian authors or actuating in Brazil were made in this work, in the second half of the XIX century, and processes of specialization of knowledge and of institutionalization of research and teaching in this country. Concepts of classification and singularity, by thesociologist Basil Bernstein, were employed in order to describe areas of knowledge with practices and rules that become individualized by contrast with others areas. Besides this, some historian’s works were used, which allow to rebuild the political and economic context in which the publications occurred.