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  • Title Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education
  • Author Barbara Maria Stafford
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 380
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher MIT Press, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
  • Date February 28, 1996
  • ISBN 9780262691819 / 0262691817
  • Weight 2.26 lbs (1.03 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.74 x 7.76 x 0.91 in (27.28 x 19.71 x 2.31 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.45
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MIT Press, 1996 4to (27.5 cm), XXX, 360 pp. Laminated wrappers. "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… Read More
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