Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences

Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 330
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ISBN-10 : 9781134175802
ISBN-13 : 1134175809
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Book Synopsis Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences by : Peter Weingart

Download or read book Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences written by Peter Weingart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a popular image of science and where does it come from? Little is known about the formation of science images and their transformation into popular images of science. In this anthology, contributions from two areas of expertise: image theory and history and the sociology of the sciences, explore techniques of constructing science images and transforming them into highly ambivalent images that represent the sciences. The essays, most of them with illustrations, present evidence that popular images of the sciences are based upon abstract theories rather than facts, and, equally, images of scientists are stimulated by imagination rather than historical knowledge.


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