We found that the series depicted science as capable of capturing the sublime, and reflecting the intellectual beauty inherent in the discovery and invention. We used Girod’s (2007a) framework for beauty and aesthetics in science and science education to categorize the recurring themes. The study involved analysis of the general scientific discourse presented in the documentary series to examine the ways in which science as a discipline and scientists themselves were portrayed in an aesthetic light. Through the ‘Cosmos’: Beauty and Aesthetics in Science Education and Popular Media Abstract: This paper presents the findings of a phenomenological study of the television-based documentary series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (Braga & Druyan, 2014).
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