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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太阳底下没有新鲜事

对科普历史的新颖和独创性的展示表明，让公众能够接触到科学自古以来就是科学活动的一部分。在这个视角下，通过 21 个案例研究，可以将当前的趋势（如科学艺术和虚拟技术）视为古希腊人在使用美学和修辞工具时已经存在的连续统一体的一部分。由于对文本集的精心策划，这本书作为一个整体提供的不仅仅是其部分（章节）的总和。