Figurative lights: Images of Techno-Scientific slides and Secularization in Spain during the 18th Century
This paper asembles and studies a set of iconological representations linked to technical and scientific transformations during the eighteenth Century in Spain, reading them in a dialectic between modern science, Enlightenment policies and popular culture. After analyzing the emergence of representa...
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| description | This paper asembles and studies a set of iconological representations linked to technical and scientific transformations during the eighteenth Century in Spain, reading them in a dialectic between modern science, Enlightenment policies and popular culture. After analyzing the emergence of representations both of science and scientists according to the process of institutionalizing science as a socio-professional language, two specific eighteenth century technologies are studied: magic lanterns and aerostats. By interpreting their first images and their infiltration into popular and official speeches and the imagination of the moment, it is argued that in those images a tale of demo-Enlightenment is expressed, a tale about secularization and progress as a collective aesthetic experience. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-05ca2bcab44e4e2aa94accdc7be7581a2025-08-20T03:16:38ZengUniversidad de SalamancaCuadernos Dieciochistas1576-79142341-19022010-06-019049786866Figurative lights: Images of Techno-Scientific slides and Secularization in Spain during the 18th CenturyGermán LABRADOR MÉNDEZ0University of PrincetonThis paper asembles and studies a set of iconological representations linked to technical and scientific transformations during the eighteenth Century in Spain, reading them in a dialectic between modern science, Enlightenment policies and popular culture. After analyzing the emergence of representations both of science and scientists according to the process of institutionalizing science as a socio-professional language, two specific eighteenth century technologies are studied: magic lanterns and aerostats. By interpreting their first images and their infiltration into popular and official speeches and the imagination of the moment, it is argued that in those images a tale of demo-Enlightenment is expressed, a tale about secularization and progress as a collective aesthetic experience.http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1576-7914/article/view/7008 |
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| title | Figurative lights: Images of Techno-Scientific slides and Secularization in Spain during the 18th Century |
| title_full | Figurative lights: Images of Techno-Scientific slides and Secularization in Spain during the 18th Century |
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| title_short | Figurative lights: Images of Techno-Scientific slides and Secularization in Spain during the 18th Century |
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