Study About The Historical Development Of Science Communication

Science communication is a process in which science diffuses through space time and realizes knowledge share among different individuals. This process can be divided into three styles: inner communication in scientific community, public communication, and communication in culture. With the limit among political, economical, military, and cultural fields becoming ambiguous, science communication is no longer regarded as a unitary exchange, and it trends to a cultural construction activity. This activity can decide the development direction and speed of the fusion between science and humanities through the public participation.The history of civilization is a course of production and communication of science and technology. Under such milieu, it is necessary to introduce the communication idea into the comprehension of science, and it is important to analyze science communication systematically. Accordingly, scientific history, scientific sociology, scientific philosophy, and scientific culture also should be assigned to this category. The history of science is contributed to enhancing the cognition of science for people, and to providing study resources for science communication. The societal study of science analyzes the practical process of science communication and is significant to its practice. And the idea of philosophy provides the essential world views for the theory and practice of science communication. In addition, the research of scientific culture extends the concept of science and communication.The main research content of the paper is the development history of science communication. The analogy of contemporaneous transmission modes between China and other countries is carried out. And based on the history, sociology, philosophy, and culture, the paper analyzes the corresponding transformation of science communication with the evolvement of transmission medium, method, and content. The information and idea provided by transmission medium are becoming the main basis of cognizing society and history for most people. So, the medium not only acts as a tool of scientific culture production and transmission, but also determines the types and styles of culture, and the modes and scope on social reality. Education and religion transmissions are the most important modes of archaic communication, thus, they are also the imperative contents of science communication research.