Popularizing Science and Technology in the European Periphery, 1800–2000Routledge, 23 mars 2016 - 304 pages 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 ideas and technological practices across the continent. The contributors to this volume each take as their focus the popularization of science in countries on the margins of Europe, who in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries may be perceived to have had a weak scientific culture. A variety of scientific genres and forums for presenting science in the public sphere are analysed, including botany and women, teaching and popularizing physics and thermodynamics, scientific theatres, national and international exhibitions, botanical and zoological gardens, popular encyclopaedias, popular medicine and astronomy, and genetics in the press. Each topic is situated firmly in its historical and geographical context, with local studies of developments in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Hungary, Denmark, Belgium and Sweden. Popularizing Science and Technology in the European Periphery provides us with a fascinating insight into the history of science in the public sphere and will contribute to a better understanding of the circulation of scientific knowledge. |
Table des matières
The Historiography of Science Popularization Reflections Inspired by | |
Women and the Popularization of Botany in Early NineteenthCentury | |
Science for the People The Belgian Encyclopédie populaire and the Constitution | |
Circumventing the Elusive Quarries of Popular Science The Communication | |
The Circulation of Energy Thermodynamics National Culture and Social | |
Genres of Popular Science Urania and the Scientific Theatre | |
The Popularization of Astronomy in Early TwentiethCentury Sweden Aims | |
Physicians as a Public for the Popularization of Medicine in Interwar Catalonia | |
With or Without Scientists Reporting on Human Genetics in the Spanish | |
Concluding Remarks | |
Selected Bibliography | |
Electric Adventures and Natural Wonders Exhibitions Museums and Scientific | |
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