Genealogy of Popular Science
From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality
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Beschreibung
Every time has the science communication it deserves. Origins, continuities and transformations of »popular science« analyzed as a recurrent cultural practice.
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
Jesús Muñoz Morcillo, geb. 1977, ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am ZAK | Zentrum für Angewandte Kulturwissenschaft und Studium Generale am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). Der Altphilologe und Kunstwissenschaftler promovierte 2015 bei Prof. Dr. Beat Wyss an der Staatlichen Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Kunst, Literatur und Wissenschaftsforschung.
Themen in »Genealogy of Popular Science«
Science Communication Science Communication Antiquity and Middle Ages Antiquity and Middle Ages Renaissance and Enlightenment Renaissance and Enlightenment Modern Visual Culture Modern Visual Culture Aesthetics and Science Popularization Aesthetics and Science Popularization Science Science Art Art Cultural History
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»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).«
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»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).«
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