Halley turns republican: How the portuguese press presented the 1910 return of Halley's comet

摘要

Only recently has the history of science community begun to pay attention to the role of mass media in communicating science and technology to non-specialized audiences, and specifically to the role of the daily press in such an endeavour.1 Interestingly, science communicated in newspapers situated in peripheral countries played a central role in producing such a historical shift.2 Our own association with this topic emerged within the context of discussions of the specificities of popularization of science in the European periphery, centred on historiographic reappraisals.~3