Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte
From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality
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Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte
From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality
About This Book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Introductory Articles
- On the Trail ofPopular Science in Antiquity
- Between Pre-Modernity and the Age of Enlightenment
- Modern Times: Arts and Sciences and Media
- Epilogue
- About the Authors
- Index of Names and Terms