LEADER 00000cam a2200601 i 4500 001 on1202469593 003 OCoLC 005 20220408043943.0 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 201031s2020 gw o 000 0 eng d 020 3839448352|q(electronic book) 020 9783839448359|q(electronic book) 035 (OCoLC)1202469593 040 EBLCP|beng|erda|epn|cEBLCP|dOCLCO|dYDXIT|dOCLCO|dYDX|dN$T |dOCLCF|dUBY|dOCLCQ 049 RIDW 050 4 Q124.6|b.M67 2020 082 04 509|223 090 Q124.6|b.M67 2020 100 1 Muñoz Morcillo, Jesús.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ names/no2017041319 245 10 Genealogy of Popular Science :|bFrom Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality. 264 1 Bielefeld :|bTranscipt Verlag,|c[2020] 300 1 online resource (587 pages). 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 490 1 Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte ;|vv. 1 505 0 Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Introductory Articles -- The Origins of Popular Science as a Rhetorical and Protreptical Practice -- From Rational Recreation to Fun with Science. Continuities in the History of Science Popularization since the Enlightenment -- On the Trail of Popular Science in Antiquity -- Mythology and Rhetoric Exercises at the Greek School -- The Panathenaic Prize-Amphorae as Communication Media -- Popular Knowledge and its Rhetorical Use in Aristotle -- Ékphrasis as a Device for Knowledge Dissemination in Euripides 505 8 Argument Schemes Related to Popular Science in the Second Sophistic -- Knowledge about the Sea and its Creatures in the Roman Empire -- The Celestial Axis in Manilius' Astronomica: Making the Invisible Visible -- Between Pre- Modernity and the Age of Enlightenment -- Popular Mechanics: Hero of Alexandria from Antiquity to the Renaissance -- Knowledge Order and Knowledge Popularization in Pre-ModernEncyclopaedism -- Was Cometen eygentlich seyen. Ways of Imparting Knowledge about the Nature of Comets in Early Modern Ephemeral Literature 505 8 More Publicity through Very Short Books. Epitomes in Late Antiquity and the Renaissance -- Pictorial Science and Enlightenment Art: Joseph Wright, William Pether, and the Cognitive Effect of Grayscales -- Modern Times: Arts and Sciences and Media -- Popularity Despite Anti- Popularization Thinking of Optical Drawing Devices in the Early 19th Century -- Wilhelm Lübke. Art History for Feuilletons -- Popular Aesthetics of the 19th Century. Ornamental Prints and Pattern Sheets as Actors for Popularization During the 1870s 505 8 Wassily Kandinsky's Conception of a Vibration of the Soul: Art Theory at the Crossroads of Esoteric Literature, Popular Science, and Aesthetics -- Visual Nature Metaphors of Cybernetics in Popular Science and the Arts -- 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 -- Iconophilia of the Brain, Stage 3? An Epistemic Regime, the Popular Science Magazine Gehirn & Geist, and Visual Culture 505 8 Watch and Learn! Image-Based Popularization of Academic Reasoning and Scientific Action in Fictional Movies and Comics -- Innovative Popular Science Communication? Materiality, Aesthetics, and Gender in Science Slams -- Epilogue -- On Honey, VR Goggles, and Real Medicine -- About the Authors -- Index of Names and Terms 588 0 Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 09, 2021). 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 650 0 Science|xHistory|vCongresses.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh2008111333 650 7 Science.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1108176 650 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 655 4 Electronic books. 655 7 Conference papers and proceedings.|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/1423772 655 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 655 7 Conference papers and proceedings.|2lcgft|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026068 700 1 Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/names/nb2003011358 776 08 |iPrint version:|aMorcillo, Jesús Muñoz.|tGenealogy of Popular Science : From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality.|dBielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, ©2020 |z9783837648355 830 0 Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/names/n95015280 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=2661266|zOnline ebook via EBSCO. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading the EBSCO version of this ebook|uhttp://guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d20220412|cEBSCO|tEBSCOebooksacademic NEW 1529 |lridw 994 92|bRID