A Popular History of Science

"popular" Science.

the pathology of historical texts translation: a study of persian translations of 7th volume of cambridge history of iran

ترجمه با گسترش زبان آغاز شده و اهمیت آن روز به روز افزایش می یابد، و برای اولین بار به عنوان شاخه ای از دانش و روشی برای انتقال علوم، فرهنگ و تجربه در در دوره قاجار در ایران آغاز شد. در حقیقت متون تاریخی از اولین متونی هستند که در ایران ترجمه شدند چرا که به سیاستمداران آن دوره کمک می کردند تا به علل موفقیت جهان غرب و پیشرفت هایشان در طول تاریخ پی ببرند، بنابراین به تدریج ترجمه این گونه متون رون...

Reviews of popular science books.

Do you read popular neuroscience? Do you think Oliver Sacks is spot on and use his books to engage students or do you reckon his patient reports are more like novels or science fiction? Are you taken by Antonio Damasio’s powerful arguments or do you think he did not get his philosophy exactly right? Do you enjoy the writings of William Calvin, Susan Greenfield, Vilayanur Ramachandran or do you ...

Science Communication, A review on Importance, History, and Its Models

The article is an extended version of a talk on the issue given in Half-Day Seminar on the Complications of Scientific Publications held by Iranian Academy of Sciences, on July the ninth of 2019. Apparently, science communication, an old tradition and once very popular according to the literature reviewed, is not well advanced along with the magnificent scientific progress happened during the l...

A History of Science

George Sarton is, in many ways, a twentieth century example of the Renaissance ideal of the "universal man." In our age of specialization it is almost impossible to attach a conventional label to Dr. Sarton. He is a scientist who received the degree of doctor of science in mathematics from the University of Ghent; he is a novelist (La chaine d'or, 1909, written under the pseudonym of Dominique ...