Observer or Observed?
The astronomers according to Chilean illustrators (1908-1919)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4013/hist.2023.273.10Abstract
This paper examines, from the perspective of the history of science and cultural history, how the astronomers were represented and the condition of scientific authority was defined by the illustrators of the main Chilean illustrated magazines of the early twentieth century. The context coincides, on the one hand, with the modernization of the publishing industry, in which visual materiality took on a key role and gave way to a new type of journalistic business; and on the other hand, with the process of gradual professionalization and institutionalization of the astronomical discipline. In this context, this case study shows that the definition of the category of scientific authority understood by part of public opinion involved two issues: the demand for a science useful to society and the questioning of the plausibility and relevance of the knowledge generated by astronomers.
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