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Rethinking the History of Science Popularization/Popular Science
2016The history of science popularization at the European periphery seems to be a project that is doubly subject to marginalization within the history of science. In both its aspects, the main event seems to be taking place elsewhere. While the ‘European periphery’ as conceived in this book is primarily geographical, it nevertheless has connotations of
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2020
Despite the efforts of modern scholars to explain the origins of science communication as a social, rhetorical, and aesthetic phenomenon, most researchers approach the popularization of science from the perspective of present issues, thus ignoring its historical roots in classical culture along with its continuities, disruptions, and transformations ...
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Despite the efforts of modern scholars to explain the origins of science communication as a social, rhetorical, and aesthetic phenomenon, most researchers approach the popularization of science from the perspective of present issues, thus ignoring its historical roots in classical culture along with its continuities, disruptions, and transformations ...
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2017
In the introduction to her most famous work Conversations on Chemistry (1806), Jane Marcet explained she had been frustrated upon attending public experimental lectures, finding it difficult to follow the experiments because she lacked necessary background knowledge.
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In the introduction to her most famous work Conversations on Chemistry (1806), Jane Marcet explained she had been frustrated upon attending public experimental lectures, finding it difficult to follow the experiments because she lacked necessary background knowledge.
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Popularization of Science Through News
Philosophy of Science, 1945During these five war years science has proclaimed and demonstrated its role as Hercules. It has employed as its loudspeaker the bursting bomb, and as its courier the swift vehicle. Its blows have been instantly lethal.Next, science has shown its skill as the fabricator of useable goods.
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The Literature of Science Popularization
Physics Bulletin, 1970Jean Pradal London: HMSO 1970 pp 107 price 10s This work is a study of how science can be explained to those who have little or no knowledge either of science in general or of the particular branch concerned. The range of intellect and education considered is enormous, varying from, say, the explanation of botany to the physicist down to general ...
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The Goddess of Popular Science
2019On the first of January, 1801, the Sicilian astronomer, Giuseppe Piazzi, discovered a new planet, which is the first known asteroid. The planets Mercury to Saturn carry the names of Roman gods and goddesses, and Uranus was also named in the same vein when it was identified as a planet around the end of the eighteenth century.
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Reviews of popular science books
Cortex, 2008Sarah, MacPherson, Sergio, Della Sala
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