Genealogy of Popular Science : : From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality / / ed. by Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha, Jesús Muñoz Morcillo.

Despite the efforts of modern scholars to explain the origins of science communication as a social, rhetorical, and aesthetic phenomenon, most researchers approach the popularization of science from the perspective of present issues, thus ignoring its historical roots in classical culture along with...

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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Science Studies ; 1
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Preface
  • Introductory Articles
  • The Origins of Popular Science as a Rhetorical and Protreptical Practice
  • From Rational Recreation to Fun with Science. Continuities in the History of Science Popularization since the Enlightenment
  • On the Trail of Popular Science in Antiquity
  • Mythology and Rhetoric Exercises at the Greek School
  • The Panathenaic Prize-Amphorae as Communication Media
  • Popular Knowledge and its Rhetorical Use in Aristotle
  • Ékphrasis as a Device for Knowledge Dissemination in Euripides
  • Argument Schemes Related to Popular Science in the Second Sophistic
  • Knowledge about the Sea and its Creatures in the Roman Empire
  • The Celestial Axis in Manilius’ Astronomica: Making the Invisible Visible
  • Between Pre-Modernity and the Age of Enlightenment
  • Popular Mechanics: Hero of Alexandria from Antiquity to the Renaissance
  • Knowledge Order and Knowledge Popularization in Pre-Modern Encyclopaedism
  • Was Cometen eygentlich seyen.* Ways of Imparting Knowledge about the Nature of Comets in Early Modern Ephemeral Literature
  • More Publicity through Very Short Books. Epitomes in Late Antiquity and the Renaissance
  • Pictorial Science and Enlightenment Art: Joseph Wright, William Pether, and the Cognitive Effect of Grayscales
  • Modern Times: Arts and Sciences and Media
  • Popularity Despite Anti-Popularization Thinking of Optical Drawing Devices in the Early 19th Century
  • Wilhelm Lübke. Art History for Feuilletons
  • Popular Aesthetics of the 19th Century. Ornamental Prints and Pattern Sheets as Actors for Popularization During the 1870s
  • Wassily Kandinsky’s Conception of a Vibration of the Soul: Art Theory at the Crossroads of Esoteric Literature, Popular Science, and Aesthetics
  • Visual Nature Metaphors of Cybernetics in Popular Science and the Arts
  • From “The Destroyer of Worlds” to “Atoms for Peace” (and Back?). The Discourse on Nuclear Power in US Popular Science Magazines during the Early Cold War Era
  • Iconophilia of the Brain, Stage 3? An Epistemic Regime, the Popular Science Magazine Gehirn & Geist, and Visual Culture
  • Watch and Learn! Image-Based Popularization of Academic Reasoning and Scientific Action in Fictional Movies and Comics
  • Innovative Popular Science Communication? Materiality, Aesthetics, and Gender in Science Slams
  • Epilogue
  • On Honey, VR Goggles, and Real Medicine
  • About the Authors
  • Index of Names and Terms