Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences
Edited by Peter Weingart, Bernd Huppauf
Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
List Price: $120.00
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-38381-3
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 10/17/2007
- Pages: 346
About the Book
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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