Halley Turns Republican: How the Portuguese Press Presented the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet

Simões, Ana; Zilhão, Isabel; Diogo, María Paula; Carneiro, Ana

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“…For a historiography of science of the modern Arab world, see Elshakry (2014). Finally, an example of revisiting Portugal as a space of scientific practice is in Simões et al (2013). 20 For a discussion of 19th century Greek practice in a manner Bourdieusian in all but name, see Tampakis and Vlahakis (2015).…”

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The Science of Practice and the Practice of Science: Pierre Bourdieu and the History of Science

Tampakis

2016

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Pierre Bourdieu is one of the most celebrated and widely known French sociologists of his time. During his long and very productive career, Bourdieu worked not only on very diverse areas of sociology, such as art, religion, the legal system, and education, but also on the culture of the Kabyle, on the marriage strategies of bachelors in Southern France, and on the sociology of the French intellectuals of his era. However, despite his international influence, his work has remained virtually unutilized within most contemporary historiography of science. This article aims to fill this lacuna. After a short presentation of his main theoretical concepts, I discuss Bourdieu's work on scientific practice. I then present his more historically oriented work and finish by suggesting some ways Bourdieu's insights can be useful for history of science.

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“…For a historiography of science of the modern Arab world, see Elshakry (). Finally, an example of revisiting Portugal as a space of scientific practice is in Simões et al ().…”

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The Science of Practice and the Practice of Science: Pierre Bourdieu and the History of Science

Tampakis

2016

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“…This is arguably the case not only for fields such as prehistory but also for other disciplines that captured the public imagination, and were thus debated in the press and lured scientists into the public arena in order to make their claims. The 19th century debate about the theory of evolution is the most obvious example (Secord, ), but astronomy (Simões et al., ), earth quake research (Coen, , ch. 3), polar research (Schimanski and Spring, ) and experimental physiology (Nieto‐Galan, ) provide other examples for the medialization of science avant la lettre.…”

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Scuffles, Scoops and Scams: The Construction of Prehistoric Knowledge in Newspapers

Hochadel

Baruzzi²,

Florensa³

2016

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“…He wanted to win the local elites for the agenda of local scientists, whose aim was to turn Azores into an active node in an international network of meteorological and seismological observatories (Simões, Carneiro, and Diogo 2012). But the newspaper also announced the lecture organized by the Academy of Sciences of Portugal delivered by Melo e Simas (Simões, Zilhão, Diogo, and Carneiro 2013). 39 In fact, the Academy of Sciences of Portugal decided to issue a leaflet to be published by the government journal (Diário do Governo), 40 of which around 25,000 copies were 38 DA, 29 April 1910, 2;DA, 30 April 1910, 1;DA, 2 May 1910, 1;DA, 3 May 1910, 1;DA, 13 May 1910, 2.…”

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The Portuguese Astronomer Melo e Simas (1870–1934): Republican Ideals and Popularization of Science

Simões¹,

Carolino²

2014

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ArgumentThis paper analyses a process of co-construction of knowledge and its multiple forms of communication in a country of the European periphery in the early twentieth century. It focuses on Lieutenant Manuel Soares de Melo e Simas, a politically engaged Portuguese astronomer, who moved from amateur to professional during the political transition from the monarchy to the republic. Melo e Simas paralleled his professional career in continuous activity of communicating science to the public in the context of republicanism in a double way, by responding to the agenda of republicanism and by playing an active role in shaping it. He aimed at educating lay audiences in the various ways of astronomy, and he reached out to as many people as possible by exploring a multitude of communication channels, from lectures to articles in newspapers and journals. Voiced often within newly created republican institutions, the praxis and the ideas of Melo e Simas helped to mold the new republican scientific ethos. By going beyond mere emphasis on scientism and positivism, usually taken to be the defining characteristics of the new republican ethos, this paper argues that science and the specificities of its multiple forms of communication were central to the way Melo e Simas shaped the republican ideology. Furthermore, popularization of science was used to legitimize the status of professional scientists at the same time that it helped reinforce their institutional setting, still to be negotiated in the forthcoming decades through a complex process which deserves further historical analysis.

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Halley Turns Republican: How the Portuguese Press Presented the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet

Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

The Science of Practice and the Practice of Science: Pierre Bourdieu and the History of Science

The Science of Practice and the Practice of Science: Pierre Bourdieu and the History of Science

Scuffles, Scoops and Scams: The Construction of Prehistoric Knowledge in Newspapers

The Portuguese Astronomer Melo e Simas (1870–1934): Republican Ideals and Popularization of Science

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