Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education Tapa blanda - 1996

MIT Press. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

MIT Press, 1996. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The MIT Press, 1996-02-27. paperback. Very Good. 7x0x10. Very good paperback copy. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy; text and illustrations are very good throughout. Light shelfwear to wraps. Letter "T" stamped on bottom text block. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The MIT Press. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.

The MIT Press, 1996-02-28. paperback. Used: Good.

MIT Press, 1996-05-01. Paperback. Very Good. 2.2843 in x 27.1574 in x 19.5431 in. Clean tight illustrated Softcover.

Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.: Mit Pr, 1996. Ppbk. Very Good/No Dj. 4to. pp. 350, b/w illustrations, ""A schoarly and lucid analysis of the replacement of an oral-visual culture in favor of a text-centered one.""

The MIT Press, 1996-02-28. paperback. Used:Good.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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… Leer más