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Hot air balloons --- Ballooning --- Safety measures.

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Himmels-Falten eröffnet eine neue Perspektive auf die Geschichte der Luftfahrt, indem es das Theater der Frühen Neuzeit als einen Schauplatz aviatischer Wissensproduktion herausstellt. Die Zeitspanne von Leonardo da Vincis Flugstudien um 1500 bis zur ersten erfolgreichen Ballonfahrt durch die Montgolfière (1783) war eine Latenzzeit, in der Flug und Luftfahrt ihrer sakralen Bedeutung zunehmend enthoben, aber noch nicht im Bereich wissenschaftlicher Evidenz und technischer Realisierbarkeit angelangt sind. Wie die Studie zeigt, ist es gerade diese unscharfe Kontur des Fliegens, die in Kunst und Wissenschaft auf produktives Potenzial trifft: Der Flug wird zum Untersuchungsgegenstand und Aushängeschild der neuen Wissenschaften, zum Ansporn handwerklichen Erfindungseifers, zur beliebten Metapher in Rhetorik, Philosophie und Reiseliteratur sowie zum ästhetischen Faszinosum der Theater- und Festkultur. Viktoria Tkaczyk nimmt acht exemplarische Interferenzbereiche zwischen Flugkunst und -wissen in den Blick, so beispielsweise Leonardo da Vincis Theaterarbeit, die Einfluss auf die prominenten Flugmaschinen des italienischen Ingenieurs genommen hat.

Stage flying. --- Hot air balloons. --- Theaters --- Sound effects. --- Special effects.

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Ballooning --- Hot air balloons --- Vol en montgolfière --- Montgolfières --- History --- History --- Histoire --- Histoire

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Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel, -- 1740-1810 --- Montgolfier, Jacques-Etienne, -- 1745-1799 --- Balloons --- Hot air balloons --- Aeronautics -- History

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"The hot-air balloon, invented by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783, launched for the second time just days before the Treaty of Paris would end the American Revolutionary War. The ascent in Paris--a technological marvel witnessed by a diverse crowd that included Benjamin Franklin--highlighted celebrations of French military victory against Britain and ignited a balloon mania that swept across Europe at the end of the Enlightenment. This popular frenzy for balloon experiments, which attracted hundreds of thousands of spectators, fundamentally altered the once elite audience for science by bringing aristocrats and commoners together. The Imagined Empire explores how this material artifact, the flying machine, not only expanded the public for science and spectacle but inspired utopian dreams of a republican monarchy that would obliterate social boundaries. The balloon, Mi Gyung Kim argues, was a people-machine, a cultural performance that unified and mobilized the people of France, who imagined an aerial empire that would bring glory to the French nation. This critical history of ballooning considers how a relatively simple mechanical gadget became an explosive cultural and political phenomenon on the eve of the French Revolution"--

TRANSPORTATION / Aviation / History. --- HISTORY / Europe / General. --- SCIENCE / History. --- Enlightenment, --- Revolutions --- Ballooning --- Hot air balloons --- Insurrections --- Rebellions --- Revolts --- Revolutionary wars --- History --- Political science --- Political violence --- War --- Government, Resistance to --- Hot air ballooning --- Aeronautical sports --- Aeronautics --- Balloons --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Social aspects