Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences

Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences
ISBN-10
1134175809
ISBN-13
9781134175802
Category
Social Science
Pages
346
Language
English
Published
2012-10-12
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Bernd Hüppauf, Peter Weingart

Description

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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