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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Year of Publication: | 2020 |
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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