1st Edition
Popularizing Science and Technology in the European Periphery, 1800–2000
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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The vast majority of European countries have never had a Newton, Pasteur or Einstein. Therefore a historical analysis of their scientific culture must be more than the search for great luminaries. Studies of the ways science and technology were communicated to the public in countries of the European periphery can provide a valuable insight into the mechanisms of the appropriation of scientific... Read more
1: Rethinking the History of Science Popularization/Popular Science; 2: The Historiography of Science Popularization; 3: Women and the Popularization of Botany in Early Nineteenth-Century Portugal; 4: Science for the People; 5: Circumventing the ‘Elusive Quarries' of Popular Science; 6: The Circulation of Energy; 7: Electric Adventures and Natural Wonders; 8: Genres of Popular Science; 9: The Popularization of Astronomy in Early Twentieth-Century Sweden; 10: Physicians as a Public for the Popularization of Medicine in Interwar Catalonia; 11: With or Without Scientists; Concluding Remarks
Biography
Dr Faidra Papanelopoulou is based at the University of Athens, Greece. Dr Agustà Nieto-Galan is based at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Dr Enrique Perdiguero is based at the Miguel Hernández University, Spain.
This absorbing collection of case-studies breaks new ground at many levels. Building on the current resurgence of interest in popularization, it invites us to re-examine some of our most fundamental perceptions of the nature and role of popular science. It pursues the construction of the excitingly enriched vision of scientific Europe that the STEP (Science and Technology in the European Periphery) project has already done so much to establish. Methodologically and for the originality of its insights and the information it assembles, this is a landmark volume. Robert Fox, University of Oxford, UK ’The authors of this collection are to be congratulated not only on their thorough research, but also on highlighting the existence of this great historical heritage. Historians thrive by finding new ways of thinking about old facts, but there are always new facts waiting to be found and explored.’ British Journal for the History of Science ’By uncovering the various strategies of scientific popularization pursued in countries whose social and political histories will be mostly unfamiliar to the majority of British, American, French and German historians of science, Popularizing Science makes an important contribution to our understanding of scientific communication in any country.’ Social History of Medicine
