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Genealogy of Popular Science From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality Jesús Muñoz Morcillo, Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Science studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
- Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science Communication.
- Antiquity and Middle Ages.
- Renaissance and Enlightenment.
- Modern Visual Culture.
- Aesthetics and Science Popularization.
- Science.
- Art.
- Cultural History.
- History of Science.
- Sociology of Science.
- Art History.
- History.
- Local Subjects:
- Science Communication.
- Antiquity and Middle Ages.
- Renaissance and Enlightenment.
- Modern Visual Culture.
- Aesthetics and Science Popularization.
- Science.
- Art.
- Cultural History.
- History of Science.
- Sociology of Science.
- Art History.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (587 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Muñoz Morcillo/Robertson-von Trotha (eds.), Genealogy of From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2020
- Biography/History:
- Jesús Muñoz Morcillo, classicist (PhD) and art historian (PhD), is research fellow at the ZAK | Centre for Cultural and General Studies and the Institute of Art and Architecture History (IKB) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
- Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha, sociologist (PhD), is founding director of the ZAK | Centre for Cultural and General Studies at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), coordinator of the German network of the Anna Lindh Foundation, member of the Culture Committee of the German UNESCO Commission, and chairlady of the Academic Council for Culture and Foreign Policy (WIKA) at the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa).
- Summary:
- 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 its continuities, disruptions, and transformations.This volume fills this research gap with a genealogically reflected introduction into the popularization of science as a recurrent cultural technique. The category »popular science« is elucidated in interdisciplinary and diachronic dialogue, discussing case studies from all historical periods.Classicists, archaeologists, medievalists, art historians, sociologists, and historians of science provide the first diachronic and multi-layered approach to the rhetoric techniques, aesthetics, and societal conditions that have shaped the dissemination and reception of scientific knowledge.
- »A novel and original take on the history of popular science show cases that making science accessible to the public has been part of scientific activity since ancient times.Thanks to a careful curation of the collection of texts, this volume as a whole offers more than the sum of its parts(chapters).«
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 List of Figures 9 Preface 13 The Origins of Popular Science as a Rhetorical and Protreptical Practice 23 From Rational Recreation to Fun with Science. Continuities in the History of Science Popularization since the Enlightenment 65 Mythology and Rhetoric Exercises at the Greek School 95 The Panathenaic Prize-Amphorae as Communication Media 115 Popular Knowledge and its Rhetorical Use in Aristotle 131 Ékphrasis as a Device for Knowledge Dissemination in Euripides 151 Argument Schemes Related to Popular Science in the Second Sophistic 165 Knowledge about the Sea and its Creatures in the Roman Empire 179 The Celestial Axis in Manilius' Astronomica: Making the Invisible Visible 215 Popular Mechanics: Hero of Alexandria from Antiquity to the Renaissance 231 Knowledge Order and Knowledge Popularization in Pre-Modern Encyclopaedism 255 Was Cometen eygentlich seyen.* Ways of Imparting Knowledge about the Nature of Comets in Early Modern Ephemeral Literature 285 More Publicity through Very Short Books. Epitomes in Late Antiquity and the Renaissance 315 Pictorial Science and Enlightenment Art: Joseph Wright, William Pether, and the Cognitive Effect of Grayscales 345 Popularity Despite Anti-Popularization Thinking of Optical Drawing Devices in the Early 19th Century 367 Wilhelm Lübke. Art History for Feuilletons 391 Popular Aesthetics of the 19th Century. Ornamental Prints and Pattern Sheets as Actors for Popularization During the 1870s 407 Wassily Kandinsky's Conception of a Vibration of the Soul: Art Theory at the Crossroads of Esoteric Literature, Popular Science, and Aesthetics 425 Visual Nature Metaphors of Cybernetics in Popular Science and the Arts 441 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 461 Iconophilia of the Brain, Stage 3? An Epistemic Regime, the Popular Science Magazine Gehirn & Geist, and Visual Culture 477 Watch and Learn! Image-Based Popularization of Academic Reasoning and Scientific Action in Fictional Movies and Comics 497 Innovative Popular Science Communication? Materiality, Aesthetics, and Gender in Science Slams 517 On Honey, VR Goggles, and Real Medicine 547 About the Authors 553 Index of Names and Terms 559
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 3-8394-4835-2
- OCLC:
- 1233041236
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