Dissemination space
Introduction
Scientific dissemination is the set of activities that interpret and make scientific knowledge accessible to society, that is, all those tasks that carry out scientific knowledge to people interested in understanding or becoming informed about that type of knowledge. Popularization places its interest not only in the scientific discoveries of the moment (for example, the determination of the mass of the neutrino), but also in more or less well-established or socially accepted theories (for example, the theory of evolution) or even in entire fields of scientific knowledge.[1].
While science journalism focuses on recent scientific developments, science communication is broader, more general.
History
Scientific dissemination is important and is historically reflected in a multitude of works by different authors. The dissemination of science, as a literary genre, began in the 2nd centuries. The man who began scientific dissemination was Galileo Galilei, who in 1612 informed his canon friend Paolo Gualdo. The work was about sunspots and consisted of the story of those discoveries that the Moon had mountains like the Earth, that there were many more stars than the ancients had imagined, that the Milky Way was not made up of luminous clouds produced by terrestrial emanations, but by a conglomerate of very numerous stars, and that the planet Jupiter "Jupiter (planet)") had four satellites rotating at full speed around it. Among the first works evocative of scientific dissemination in the remote past, we can mention Dialogues on the two greatest systems of the world (1632), by Galileo,[2] in which three characters dialogue for four days about the Aristotelian-Ptolemaic and Copernican visions of the universe. In 1662, the British Royal Society was created,[3] chaired by Isaac Newton, but it made a dissemination only for the elites, which did not reach society in general. It was not until 1799 when the Royal Institution of Great Britain was founded, in which conferences, talks, and publications were finally held so that everyone could access science. The North American magazine Popular Science (founded in 1872) is probably the first general publication that appeared with an informative nature. The great explosion of science occurred in the 20th century, after the First World War, great scientists such as Albert Einstein and Marie Curie emerged, giving another vision of science, and committed to its dissemination. But it was after World War II when megascience occurred.[4].