Genealogy of Popular Science

Genealogy of Popular Science

From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality

In: Science Studies, 1

Edited by: Jesús Muñoz Morcillo and Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha

transcript-Verlag | 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839448359

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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.

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Jesús Muñoz Morcillo, born 1977, is research associate at the ZAK | Centre for Cultural and General Studies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The classicist and art theorist made his PhD 2015 with Prof. Dr. Beat Wyss at the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design. His research focuses on Art, Literature and Science Studies.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	1
Contents Free access PDF PDF	5
List of Figures Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	9
Preface Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	13
Introductory Articles
The Origins of Popular Science as a Rhetorical and Protreptical Practice Jesús Muñoz Morcillo Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	23
From Rational Recreation to Fun with Science. Continuities in the History of Science Popularization since the Enlightenment Oliver Hochadel Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	65
On the Trail of Popular Science in Antiquity
Mythology and Rhetoric Exercises at the Greek School José Antonio Fernández Delgado Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	95
The Panathenaic Prize-Amphorae as Communication Media Martin Streicher Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	115
Popular Knowledge and its Rhetorical Use in Aristotle María J. Martín-Velasco Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	131
Ékphrasis as a Device for Knowledge Dissemination in Euripides Sara Matías Pérez Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	151
Argument Schemes Related to Popular Science in the Second Sophistic Maurice Parussel Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	165
Knowledge about the Sea and its Creatures in the Roman Empire Dorit Engster Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	179
The Celestial Axis in Manilius’ Astronomica: Making the Invisible Visible Matteo Rossetti Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	215
Between Pre-Modernity and the Age of Enlightenment
Popular Mechanics: Hero of Alexandria from Antiquity to the Renaissance Courtney Ann Roby Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	231
Knowledge Order and Knowledge Popularization in Pre-Modern Encyclopaedism Mathias Herweg Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	255
Was Cometen eygentlich seyen.* Ways of Imparting Knowledge about the Nature of Comets in Early Modern Ephemeral Literature Marion Gindhart Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	285
More Publicity through Very Short Books. Epitomes in Late Antiquity and the Renaissance Markus Sehlmeyer Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	315
Pictorial Science and Enlightenment Art: Joseph Wright, William Pether, and the Cognitive Effect of Grayscales Oliver Jehle Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	345
Modern Times: Arts and Sciences and Media
Popularity Despite Anti-Popularization Thinking of Optical Drawing Devices in the Early 19th Century Erna Fiorentini Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	367
Wilhelm Lübke. Art History for Feuilletons Alexandra Axtmann Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	391
Popular Aesthetics of the 19th Century. Ornamental Prints and Pattern Sheets as Actors for Popularization During the 1870s Elin Manker Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	407
Wassily Kandinsky’s Conception of a Vibration of the Soul: Art Theory at the Crossroads of Esoteric Literature, Popular Science, and Aesthetics Beatrice Immelmann Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	425
Visual Nature Metaphors of Cybernetics in Popular Science and the Arts Lena Trüper Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	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 Lars F. Köppen Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	461
Iconophilia of the Brain, Stage 3? An Epistemic Regime, the Popular Science Magazine Gehirn & Geist, and Visual Culture Dirk Hommrich Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	477
Watch and Learn! Image-Based Popularization of Academic Reasoning and Scientific Action in Fictional Movies and Comics Kathrin Klohs Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	497
Innovative Popular Science Communication? Materiality, Aesthetics, and Gender in Science Slams Miira Hill Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	517
Epilogue
On Honey, VR Goggles, and Real Medicine Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	547
About the Authors Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	553
Index of Names and Terms Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	559

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From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality

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