Limites e possibilidades na utilização do text "minhas invenções", de Nikola Tesla, na discussão de aspectos da natureza da ciência

Abstract

In this work we studied the autobiography "My Inventions", by Nikola Tesla, trying to understand how it presents the knowledge produced by the author, and with it, how the Nature of Science is portrayed, highlighting the potential and limitations for use this text in Teaching. Starting from a research in the literature, we identified a set of agreed aspects about the Nature of Science, and using the Discursive Textual Analysis, we select passages from the autobiography that express understanding, appropriate or not, about how scientific activity is developed. We found that the work allows the discussion of elements that recall to the understanding of science as a human activity, not neutral and with social, economic and cultural influences.