Genealogy of Popular Science: From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality

Genealogy of Popular Science: From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality

Author
Jesús Muñoz Morcillo, Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Language
English
Year
2020
Page
581
ISBN
9783837648355,9783839448359
File Type
pdf
File Size
26.3 MiB

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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