Making Science Popular: Figuier in the Brazilian Newspapers and Magazines (1850-1870).

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    • Alternate Title:
      Tornar a ciência popular: Figuier nos jornais e revistas do Brasil (1850-1870). (Portuguese)
    • Abstract:
      The article intends to analyze the presence of the science popularizer Louis Figuier's texts in the Brazilian press during the 1850s and 1870s. Throughout the two decades studied, in a context particularly conducive to scientific vogue, the author becomes popularized through the press and by the circulation of their books in Portuguese, reaching wider audiences, such as women and children. At the same time, the mediation of science promoted by the author comes to be recognized as a specific genre: the popular science. Both the appropriation of the author's texts in the press and the changes that conform the context of the institutionalization of science in the country provide the keys to understand the hierarchy between popularized science and the science of the scholars at that moment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
    • Abstract:
      O artigo pretende analisar a presença dos textos do vulgarizador das ciências Louis Figuier na imprensa brasileira durante as décadas de 1850 a 1870. Ao longo das duas décadas estudadas, em um contexto particularmente propício à voga científica, o autor se populariza através da imprensa e a partir da circulação de seus livros em português, atingindo públicos mais amplos, como as mulheres e crianças. Ao mesmo tempo, a mediação das ciências promovida pelo autor passa a ser reconhecida como um gênero específico: a vulgarização científica. Tanto a apropriação dos textos do autor via imprensa quanto as mudanças que se conformam no âmbito das instituições de ciência no país fornecem as chaves para a compreensão da hierarquização entre a ciência popularizada e a ciência dos eruditos naquele momento. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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