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tion to the emergence of ‘new optics’: Dissertationes quinque ad dioptricam
pertinentes (1767) (n. 50, 56).
On the basis of the sixth canto of Bošković’s epic De Solis ac Lunae defectibus
we have analysed the models of science communication and procedures
by which science is communicated. We conclude that Bošković’s poetic
themes and the accompanying comments in the scientific and historical notes
include his ideas on public and the features of the content. Apart from Newton,
through whom Bošković in a specific kind of way communicates to the
London scholarly milieu and the Royal Society, the verses have another two
important addressees, two protagonists of the ‘new optics’ – John Dollond and
Leonhard Euler. Thus through numerous self-references Bošković the scholar
confidently presents his contributions to optics, geophysics, astronomy, and
natural philosophy.
Some other elements also point to an elaborate design of Bošković’s model
of science communication, e.g. the mention of Algarotti’s dialogues Il Neutonianismo
per le dame (1737) with the views of the accessibility of scientific
content to various types of the public, i.e., of the advantages and limitations
of the ‘popular science’ as currently termed (n. 12). In the closing episode of
the sixth canto, Bošković affords a complicated allegory of the Sun, Moon and
Earth, while in a note (n. 78) he describes its message by means of contrast:
The Earth, as observed from the Moon, is “black, misty and dirty” (n. 78), but
the Moon’s effects are “the most common and the most known” (communissima
et notissima), using thus the key words which we today could also use if
we wished to describe the presence of science in public.
Key words: models of science communication, popularization of science, self-references
of the scientist; Ruđer Bošković, Isaac Newton
MONIKA JURIĆ
Hrvatsko narodno kazalište, Zagreb, Hrvatska /
Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb, Croatia
GLAZBA I METAFIZIKA: NEOPLATONIČKE IDEJE O GLAZBI
U DJELU DIALOGO DELLA BELLEZZA (1581)
NIKOLE VITOVA GUČETIĆA
Jedan od najistaknutijih filozofa kasnorenesansnog Dubrovnika – Nikola
Vitov Gučetić (Niccolò Vito di Gozze) – glazbom se bavio u trima svojim
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