Argument Schemes Related to Popular Science in the Second Sophistic

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1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. List of Figures 9
4. Preface 13
5. Introductory Articles
6. The Origins of Popular Science as a Rhetorical and Protreptical Practice 23
7. From Rational Recreation to Fun with Science. Continuities in the History of Science Popularization since the Enlightenment 65
8. On the Trail of Popular Science in Antiquity
9. Mythology and Rhetoric Exercises at the Greek School 95
10. The Panathenaic Prize-Amphorae as Communication Media 115
11. Popular Knowledge and its Rhetorical Use in Aristotle 131
12. Ékphrasis as a Device for Knowledge Dissemination in Euripides 151
13. Argument Schemes Related to Popular Science in the Second Sophistic 165
14. Knowledge about the Sea and its Creatures in the Roman Empire 179
15. The Celestial Axis in Manilius’ Astronomica: Making the Invisible Visible 215
16. Between Pre-Modernity and the Age of Enlightenment
17. Popular Mechanics: Hero of Alexandria from Antiquity to the Renaissance 231
18. Knowledge Order and Knowledge Popularization in Pre-Modern Encyclopaedism 255
19. Was Cometen eygentlich seyen.* Ways of Imparting Knowledge about the Nature of Comets in Early Modern Ephemeral Literature 285
20. More Publicity through Very Short Books. Epitomes in Late Antiquity and the Renaissance 315
21. Pictorial Science and Enlightenment Art: Joseph Wright, William Pether, and the Cognitive Effect of Grayscales 345
22. Modern Times: Arts and Sciences and Media
23. Popularity Despite Anti-Popularization Thinking of Optical Drawing Devices in the Early 19th Century 367
24. Wilhelm Lübke. Art History for Feuilletons 391
25. Popular Aesthetics of the 19th Century. Ornamental Prints and Pattern Sheets as Actors for Popularization During the 1870s 407
26. Wassily Kandinsky’s Conception of a Vibration of the Soul: Art Theory at the Crossroads of Esoteric Literature, Popular Science, and Aesthetics 425
27. Visual Nature Metaphors of Cybernetics in Popular Science and the Arts 441
28. 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 461
29. Iconophilia of the Brain, Stage 3? An Epistemic Regime, the Popular Science Magazine Gehirn & Geist, and Visual Culture 477
30. Watch and Learn! Image-Based Popularization of Academic Reasoning and Scientific Action in Fictional Movies and Comics 497
31. Innovative Popular Science Communication? Materiality, Aesthetics, and Gender in Science Slams 517
32. Epilogue
33. On Honey, VR Goggles, and Real Medicine 547
34. About the Authors 553
35. Index of Names and Terms 559