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The Useful Spectacle: The Origin of Popular Science

By Amedeo Pitzoi
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By Amedeo Pitzoi
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"There's no better way to open the mind than curiosity."
— Abbot Pluche

Today, everyone enjoys the results of science… but it took so long to get there.
Cicero was the first to translate scientific language so that his fellow citizens could understand it.
Then, Galileo used dialogue to try convincing the Aristotelians that Earth moved. He failed, but his example lived on and inspired other scientists to do the same, until the scientific revolution started by Copernicus was accepted.
And finally...

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