El país de los sueños perdidos

In this monumental work, long needed, the professor and member of the Royal Spanish Academy José Manuel Sánchez Ron analyzes, and interprets, the history of science that was made in Spain from the 7th century, when Isidore of Seville wrote his Etymologies, to the promulgation of the so-called "Law of Science" in 1986. Throughout the centuries, there have been no shortage of Spaniards capable of appreciating the value of science, understood as a dream worth dedicating themselves to, due to its intrinsic value, as the best instrument we have to understand everything that surrounds us, but also for its undeniable usefulness to make life easier. This is the story of all those people -and the institutions in which they worked-, who, conditioned by the political, economic, military or social situation of the country, dedicated themselves to science and lived moments of hope but also of frustration, to verify that their dreams had been lost, that they woke up in a country that was not the one they had wanted. Written with admirable prose, The Land of Lost Dreams tells us about yesterday, but also about a tomorrow that Spaniards should strive to build.