La Plata Monatsschrift. Buenos Aires, 1873 - 1876. Presencia científica europea en la Argentina del siglo XIX.

Roberto A. Ferrari. Buenos Aires. Olivos. Editions in Focus. 2021.

Quarto (23 x 15 cm), 261 pages.

Interested in the history of science and photography, Roberto A. Ferrari focuses his attention here on a magazine published in Buenos Aires in the second half of the 19th century, in German, La Plata Monatsschrift. His complete collection, forty-eight numbers, extremely rare, brings together collaborations of prominent German-speaking scientists who were working in our country and neighboring territories in those years.

Ferrari incorporates in his book several articles translated for the first time into Spanish, a bilingual index of everything published in this monthly and with a very friendly text, places us in time. The sciences in the national reorganization, the foreign presence, centers of scientific activity and periodical publications, are some of those chapters, as well as the footprint of Humboldt and his contributions, and the German immigration and the role of the monthly La Plata Monatsschrift.