ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the reform of higher education institutions and prophetically associated the establishment of a university in Lisbon with the transformation of Lisbon from a capital city into a scientific capital. It looks at the city of Lisbon during the first decade of the twentieth century, which corresponded to the last troubled decade of the monarchy and the first months of the new Republican regime, established on October 5, 1910. A survey of science, technology, and medicine (STM) news about Lisbon published in two major press outlets—a daily generalist newspaper and a weekly magazine associated with another daily generalist newspaper—is offered in order to detect how the changes brought about by STM actors, institutions, and projects permeated city life as they were perceived by a considerable fraction of the population. The chapter discusses that considerations on the contents of STM news in Diário de Notícias rely on the systematic analysis of its contents in 1900, 1905, and 1910.
