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that new observations and results are consistent with and similar to established knowledge wherein qualified scientists are assumed to recognize the relevance. By contrast, popular science often emphasizes uniqueness and generality and may have a tone of factual authority absent from the scientific literature. Comparisons between original scientific reports, derivative science journalism, and popular science typically reveals at least some level of distortion and
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efficacy of methods. Popular science attempts to inform and convince scientific outsiders (sometimes along with scientists in other fields) of the significance of data and conclusions and to celebrate the results. Statements in the scientific literature are often qualified and tentative, emphasizing
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that new observations and results are consistent with and similar to established knowledge wherein qualified scientists are assumed to recognize the relevance. By contrast, popular science emphasizes uniqueness and generality, taking a tone of factual authority absent from the scientific literature.
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efficacy of methods. Popular science attempts to inform and convince scientific outsiders (sometimes along with scientists in other fields) of the significance of data and conclusions and to celebrate the results. Statements in the scientific literature are often qualified and tentative, emphasizing
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Before the modern specialization and professionalization of science, there was often little distinction between "science" and "popular science", and works intended to share scientific knowledge with a general reader existed as far back as Greek and Roman antiquity. Without these popular works, much
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as a professional medium of scientific research, and the realms of popular political and cultural discourse. The goal of the genre is often to capture the methods and accuracy of science while making the language more accessible. Many science-related controversies are discussed in popular science
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focuses on recent scientific developments, popular science is more broad ranging. It may be written by professional science journalists or by scientists themselves. It is presented in many forms, including books, film and television documentaries, magazine articles, and web pages.
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Pellegrini, Giuseppe; Rubin, Andrea (2020). "20 Italy: The long and winding path of science communication". In Gascoigne, Toss; Schiele, Bernard; Leach, Joan; Riedlinger, Michelle; Lewenstein, Bruce V.; Massarani, Luisa; Broks, Peter (eds.).
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was incomprehensible for most readers, so popularizations of Newton's ideas soon followed. Popular science writing surged in countries such as France, where books such as
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The 17th century saw the beginnings of the modern scientific revolution and the consequent need for explicit popular science writing. Although works such as
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of the scientific knowledge of the era might have been lost. For example, none of the original works of the 4th century BC Greek astronomer
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The purpose of scientific literature is to inform and persuade peers regarding the validity of observations and conclusions and the
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The purpose of scientific literature is to inform and persuade peers regarding the validity of observations and conclusions and the
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Muñoz Morcillo, Jesús; Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y. (2020). Muñoz Morcillo, Jesús; Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y. (eds.).
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Presented for an audience with little or no science background, hence explaining general concepts more thoroughly
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Synthesis of new ideas that cross multiple fields and offer new applications in other academic specialties
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Defining science : William Whewell, natural knowledge, and public debate in early Victorian Britain
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Falkowski, Paul G. (2015). "2 Meet the Microbes. Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable".
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had recognized the need for the specific genre of popular science. In a letter to philosopher
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Fahnestock, Jeanne. "Accommodating Science: The Rhetorical Life of Scientific Facts".
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have survived, but his contributions were largely preserved due to the didactic poem "
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Exploring ideas overlooked by specialists or falling outside established disciplines
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became an early and highly successful science writer of the nineteenth century. Her
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Use of metaphors and analogies to explain difficult or abstract scientific concepts
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and the biological components of intelligence, stirred by popular books such as
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Roman science: origins, development, and influence to the later Middle Ages
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Genealogy of Popular Science: From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality
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The Literature of Science: Perspectives on Popular Scientific Writing
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books and publications, such as the long-running debates over
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Some usual features of popular science productions include:
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Entertainment value or personal relevance to the audience
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Index

Popularizer of science
Popular science (disambiguation)
Science communication

science journalism
Eudoxus
Phenomena
Hipparchus
Erasmus Darwin
The Botanic Garden
books of secrets
Giambattista Della Porta
Magia Naturalis
Isabella Cortese
Secreti
Galileo
Il Saggiatore
Robert Hooke
Micrographia
Newton's
Principia
Fontenelle
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
John Herschel
William Whewell
Mary Somerville
On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences
John Murray
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin

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