The Popularization of Science and the Idea of Territory in the Brazilian First Republic: the José Veríssimo phase of the Revista Brasileira (1895-1900)

The objective of this work is to analyze the first years of the Brazilian Republic (1883-1930), a little-explored epoch in Brazil, through the history of the popularization of science. It is the consensus that during the passage from the 19th to the 20th century there was a decline in the activities devoted to public communication, such as conferences, public courses, and the publication of magazines. The effort to understand the popularization of science in the first years of the Republic, principally in magazines aimed at the greater public. The exception can be seen in the magazine, Revista Brasileira (Brazilian Magazine), which continued to circulate, constituting a highly valuable source by which we can verify the diverse dimensions of the connection between the public and science. In this paper it will be analyze the role of territory as the main element which connects science and literature in Brazil during the First Republic.