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Journal of Science Communication (JCOM)
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2021-09
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A novel and original take on the history of popular science showcases that making science accessible to the public has been part of scientific activity since ancient times. Under this lens, and through twenty-one case studies, current trends such as sci-art and virtual technology can be seen as part of a continuum that was already present in the use of aesthetic and rhetorical tools by the ancient Greeks. Thanks to a careful curation of the collection of texts, this volume as a whole offers more than the sum of its parts (chapters).
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Stengler, E. (2021). There is nothing new under the sun [Review of "Genealogy of popular science: from ancient ecphrasis to virtual reality," by Morcillo, J. M. and Robertson-von Trotha, C. Y.]. Journal of Science Communication (JCOM) 20 (05), R04. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.20050704.