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The chapter explores the role of imaginative processes in the history of natural and social sciences. It expands the imaginative activities to the different phases of scientific method and links it to the idea that imagining is a driving force for scientific research, but it also creates the sociopolitical goals that orient science as a social force.
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The expedition was characterized by several accidents, loss of equipment and detours due to the poor experience of the crew, and even the death of Joseph Greiner, a member of the German team who caught the malaria and died. “To this day, a wooden cross topped with a swastika marks the place where he was buried, its presence giving rise to all sorts of stories about the Germans’ journey to the region” (Sá and da Silva 2016, p. 241).
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Tateo, L. (2020). Imagination in Science. In: A Theory of Imagining, Knowing, and Understanding. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38025-0_3
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