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Artful Science : Enlightenment, Entertainment, and the Eclipse of Visual Education by Barbara Maria Stafford is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Artful Science : Enlightenment, Entertainment, and the Eclipse of Visual Education about?
Exploring the exhilarating but paradoxical intertwining of enchantment with enlightenment in the early modern period. What has happened to the magic of learning? Playful illusions, spellbinding games, and lifelike automata were once integral to education. Artful Science reveals the exhilarating but paradoxical intertwining of enchantment with enlightenment in the early modern period. A cross-disciplinary guide to intellectual high and low life of the eighteenth century, Artful Science makes the case for the pedagogical opportunities inherent in an oral-visual culture. Barbara Stafford draws on an extraordinary range of historical sources and popular imagery, exploring from a new perspective the perceptual cognition that she so deftly analyzed in Body Criticism. Her important reinterpretation also casts many well-studied paintings as instances of an instructive art of demonstration. Artful Science opens by describing the evolution of mathematical recreations and their relationship to the middle class's increasing leisure time. Subsequent chapters focus on the problem of distinguishing legitimate science from virtuoso fraud; the public performance of experiments; and early attempts t
Who reads Artful Science : Enlightenment, Entertainment, and the Eclipse of Visual Education?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Barbara Maria Stafford
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 1800
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262193429
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Medical
- Updated
- 2026-03-24