Abstract

NASCIMENTO, Silvania Sousa do. A imagem na popularização das ciências: a astronomia popular de Camille Flammarion. ETD [online]. 2008, vol.09, n.03, pp.15-30. ISSN 1676-2592.

In scientific practice, there is not the image for the image. The image is always respected a process, the result of a theory or the representation of a reasoning or model. In this article I will introduce the discussion on the functioning of images in a work of popularization of the sciences. The publication of 1955 of the book Astronomie Populaire of Camille Flammarion is the object of analysis. This preliminary study indicates a functioning of illustration and of demonstration of the proof of “to do sciences”.

Keywords : Camille Flammarion; Science’s Popularization; Functioning of Discourse; Popular Astronomy.

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