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Genealogy of Popular Science

From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality
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Edition
1/2020
Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-3-8376-4835-5
ISBN-Online
978-3-8394-4835-9
Publisher
transcript, Bielefeld
Series
Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte
Volume
1
Language
English
Pages
586
Product type
Edited Book

Table of contents

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  1. Frontmatter Full access Pages 1 - 4
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  2. Contents Full access Pages 5 - 8
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  3. List of Figures No access Pages 9 - 12
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  4. Preface No access Pages 13 - 20
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  5. The Origins of Popular Science as a Rhetorical and Protreptical Practice No access Pages 23 - 64
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  6. From Rational Recreation to Fun with Science. Continuities in the History of Science Popularization since the Enlightenment No access Pages 65 - 92
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  7. Mythology and Rhetoric Exercises at the Greek School No access Pages 95 - 114
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  8. The Panathenaic Prize-Amphorae as Communication Media No access Pages 115 - 130
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  9. Popular Knowledge and its Rhetorical Use in Aristotle No access Pages 131 - 150
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  10. Ékphrasis as a Device for Knowledge Dissemination in Euripides No access Pages 151 - 164
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  11. Argument Schemes Related to Popular Science in the Second Sophistic No access Pages 165 - 178
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  12. Knowledge about the Sea and its Creatures in the Roman Empire No access Pages 179 - 214
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  13. The Celestial Axis in Manilius'' Astronomica: Making the Invisible Visible No access Pages 215 - 228
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  14. Popular Mechanics: Hero of Alexandria from Antiquity to the Renaissance No access Pages 231 - 254
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  15. Knowledge Order and Knowledge Popularization in Pre-Modern Encyclopaedism No access Pages 255 - 284
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  16. Was Cometen eygentlich seyen.* Ways of Imparting Knowledge about the Nature of Comets in Early Modern Ephemeral Literature No access Pages 285 - 314
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  17. More Publicity through Very Short Books. Epitomes in Late Antiquity and the Renaissance No access Pages 315 - 344
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  18. Pictorial Science and Enlightenment Art: Joseph Wright, William Pether, and the Cognitive Effect of Grayscales No access Pages 345 - 364
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  19. Popularity Despite Anti-Popularization Thinking of Optical Drawing Devices in the Early 19th Century No access Pages 367 - 390
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  20. Wilhelm Lübke. Art History for Feuilletons No access Pages 391 - 406
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  21. Popular Aesthetics of the 19th Century. Ornamental Prints and Pattern Sheets as Actors for Popularization During the 1870s No access Pages 407 - 424
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  22. Wassily Kandinsky''s Conception of a Vibration of the Soul: Art Theory at the Crossroads of Esoteric Literature, Popular Science, and Aesthetics No access Pages 425 - 440
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  23. Visual Nature Metaphors of Cybernetics in Popular Science and the Arts No access Pages 441 - 460
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  24. 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 No access Pages 461 - 476
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  25. Iconophilia of the Brain, Stage 3? An Epistemic Regime, the Popular Science Magazine Gehirn & Geist, and Visual Culture No access Pages 477 - 496
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  26. Watch and Learn! Image-Based Popularization of Academic Reasoning and Scientific Action in Fictional Movies and Comics No access Pages 497 - 516
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  27. Innovative Popular Science Communication? Materiality, Aesthetics, and Gender in Science Slams No access Pages 517 - 544
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  28. On Honey, VR Goggles, and Real Medicine No access Pages 547 - 552
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  29. About the Authors No access Pages 553 - 558
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  30. Index of Names and Terms No access Pages 559 - 586
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