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Commercial and Sublime
- Popular Astronomy Lectures in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Engelsk
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9780822967811
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0822967812
Udg. Dato:
6 jan 2026
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,2
Oplagsdato:
6 jan 2026
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Commercial and Sublime

- Popular Astronomy Lectures in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Engelsk
Paperback 2026
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The astronomy lecturing trade in Britain experienced a theatrical turn in the early 1800s, as practitioners relied on larger and more elaborate visual aids to enhance the scenic and dramatic effects of their traveling spectacles. Commercial and Sublime explores this phenomenon in the long nineteenth century, a time when astronomical shows rose in popularity and the lecturing trade developed a commercial side where business, profits, and competition took center stage. Astronomy lecturing during this period, Hsiang-Fu Huang reveals, also heavily exploited the notion of the sublime, where displays and the rhetoric of awe and wonder meant to arouse religious sentiment by pointing to the sublimity of the universe and the Creator behind it. His book explores the various practitioners, sites, curriculums, apparatus, and audiences of popular astronomy lectures in nineteenth-century Britain, focusing specifically on those outside the scientific elite whose commercial endeavors opened up a flourishing market for various types of performances, including Lent shows in theaters, courses in learned or mechanics’ institutes, and itinerant lectures around provincial towns and in the surrounding countryside.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9780822967811
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0822967812
Udg. Dato:
6 jan 2026
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,2
Oplagsdato:
6 jan 2026
Forfatter(e):
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