Popularizing Science and Technology in the European Periphery 1800-2000

Papamelopoulou Faidra et al Edit

ISBN 10: 0754662691 / ISBN 13: 9780754662693

Published by Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Farnham and Burlington, 2009

About this Item

From an academic library with the usual stamps and labels. Apart from the library evidence a clean tight copy. Book has never been 'checked-out'. xiii, 284pp. Illustrated throughout. Binding is black cloth with silver titling to spine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Popularizing Science and Technology in the European Periphery 1800-2000
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Farnham and Burlington
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754662691
• ISBN 13: 9780754662693
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Book Type: A00013787

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Dr Faidra Papanelopoulou is based at the University of Athens, Greece. Dr Agustí Nieto-Galan is based at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Dr Enrique Perdiguero is based at the Miguel Hernández University, Spain.