Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

De Fontenelle à Gaston Tissandier, la Vulgarisation trace son chemin, à travers les remous de l’Histoire, avec les abbés Nollet, Pluche et Moigno – soucieux de concilier religion et science – et les républicains Arago, Figuier, Flammarion, Meunier, Jules Verne et tant d’autres. Elle permet à un public de plus en plus varié, grâce aux progrès de la presse et de l’imprimerie, de suivre de près les découvertes scientifiques, mais aussi de comprendre les progrès techniques qui modifient la vie "idienne : le chemin de fer, l’électricité, les ascenseurs, la bicyclette et l’automobile, etc. Ce public peut même assister aux démonstrations, lors des grandes Expositions universelles qui éclairent le siècle. Des collections spécialisées voient le jour, Manuels Roret, Bibliothèque des Merveilles. Les premières revues périodiques de vulgarisation se multiplient. Cosmos et La Nature préfigurent les revues modernes. De grandes revues généralistes, la Revue des Deux Mondes, Le Magasin pittoresque, l’Illustration n’hésitent pas à publier des articles de vulgarisation.

Science --- Science news. --- News, Science --- Popularization of science --- Communication in science --- Journalism --- Technical writing --- History. --- Popularization

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Zwischen Literatur und Naturwissenschaft finden im 18. Jh. vielfältige Interaktionen statt: Literarische Texte verarbeiten wissenschaftliche Themen; wissenschaftliche Diskurse verwenden literarische Techniken. Der Sammelband widmet sich den Austauschprozessen zwischen den Disziplinen. Wissensgeschichtliche Paradigmen und Übergänge (etwa in den Bereichen der Mechanik, Geographie, Botanik, Chemie/Alchemie, Kosmologie) stehen ebenso im Fokus wie Schreibweisen und Vermittlungsformen (Musenalmanache, Lehrgedichte, Lexika etc.). In exemplarischen Fallstudien werden wissenschaftliche Traktate, populärwissenschaftliche Schriften und literarische Texte vom 17. bis ins frühe 19. Jahrhundert beleuchtet (England, Frankreich, Deutschland). Das Spektrum reicht von Theatermaschinen bis zum künstlichen Menschen, von der Vermessung der Welt bis zum Stein der Weisen, von der Farbenlehre bis zur Kometenforschung, von Wundern und Phantasmen bis zu Tabellen und Statistiken. Eine wesentliche Einsicht betrifft die Überlagerung der Diskurse: In den einzelnen Themenfeldern kreuzen sich verschiedene naturwissenschaftliche Disziplinen; zugleich werden literarische und szientifistische Darstellungen noch nicht strikt voneinander getrennt.

Saddle period. --- Sattelzeit. --- Wissenskultur. --- Wissenspoetik. --- Wissenspopularisierung. --- culture of knowledge. --- poetics of knowledge. --- popularization of science. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Science news --- Communication in science --- News, Science --- Popularization of science --- Science --- Journalism --- Technical writing --- Communication in research --- Science communication --- Science information --- Scientific communications --- Popularization --- SCIENCES --- VULGARISATION --- CONGRES

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Science news --- Science --- Technology --- Health --- Medical policy --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Sciences - General --- Social aspects --- Public health --- News, Science --- Popularization of science --- Popularization --- Communication in science --- Journalism --- Technical writing

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Imagine a stage full of black cats emitting electrical sparks, a man catching bullets with his teeth, or an evangelist jumping on a transformer to shoot bolts of lightning through his fingertips. These and other wild schemes were part of the repertoire of showmen who traveled from city to city, making presentations that blended science with myth and magic. In Wonder Shows, Fred Nadis offers a colorful history of these traveling magicians, inventors, popular science lecturers, and other presenters of “miracle science” who revealed science and technology to the public in awe-inspiring fashion. The book provides an innovative synthesis of the history of performance with a wider study of culture, science, and religion from the antebellum period to the present. It features a lively cast of characters, including electrical “wizards” Nikola Tesla and Thomas Alva Edison, vaudeville performers such as Harry Houdini, mind readers, UFO cultists, and practitioners of New Age science. All of these performers developed strategies for invoking cultural authority to back their visions of science and progress. The pseudo-science in their wonder shows helped promote a romantic worldview that called into question the absolute authority of scientific materialism while reaffirming the importance of human spirituality. Nadis argues that the sensation that these entertainers provided became an antidote to the alienation and dehumanization that accompanied the rise of modern America. Although most recent defenders of science are prone to reject wonder, considering it an ally of ignorance and superstition, Wonder Shows demonstrates that the public’s passion for magic and meaning is still very much alive. Today, sales continue to be made and allegiances won based on illusions that products are unique, singular, and at best, miraculous. Nadis establishes that contemporary showmen, corporate publicists, advertisers, and popular science lecturers are not that unlike the magicians and mesmerists of years ago.

Science news --- Magic shows --- Revivals --- Protracted meetings (Revivals) --- Revival (Religion) --- Evangelistic work --- Amusements --- News, Science --- Popularization of science --- Science --- Communication in science --- Journalism --- Technical writing --- History --- Popularization