The Cooke Affair: Astronomical Lantern Lecturing as a Political Strategy.
Around the world, science communication has long been used as a tactic by scientists to gain public support. Within the field of astronomy, visualisation has been a component part of this tactic and lantern slides were used by astronomical lecturers for this purpose well into the 20th century. The f...
| Publicado en: | Centaurus: Journal of the European Society for the History of Science Vol. 67; no. 2; pp. 189 - 219 |
|---|---|
| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Artículo |
| Publicado: |
Brepols Publishers
2025
|
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=196177681&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 196177681 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00088994 HXX jtl: Centaurus: Journal of the European Society for the History of Science issn: 00088994 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2025 vid: 67 iid: 2 pid: 7245 pub: Brepols Publishers artinfo: ui: 196177681 10.1484/J.CNT.5.153180 ppf: 189 ppct: 30 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 4.3MB tig: atl: The Cooke Affair: Astronomical Lantern Lecturing as a Political Strategy. aug: au: BUSH, MARTIN TASKER, IAN affil: University of Melbourne, Australia. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. sug: keyword: Astronomy in Australia Epistemic Image Magic Lantern Sydney Observatory Visualisation in Science ab: Around the world, science communication has long been used as a tactic by scientists to gain public support. Within the field of astronomy, visualisation has been a component part of this tactic and lantern slides were used by astronomical lecturers for this purpose well into the 20th century. The forced retirement in 1926 of Ernest Cooke, Government Astronomer of New South Wales, and near closure of the Sydney Observatory was a particularly sharp example of this process. Combined with contemporary journalistic and literary descriptions, archival evidence from Cooke's slides held within the Powerhouse Museum collection reveal the importance that lantern slide lecturing held in these communication practices. Although there are uniquely Australian aspects to this dispute, the use of images reveals wider patterns. To complement recent interest in the epistemic image in science and the role of epistemic emotions, we suggest additional categories of didactic and affective images that were used by Cooke and others in their communication of astronomy to the public. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Centaurus: Journal of the European Society for the History of Science is the property of Brepols Publishers and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Centaurus: Journal of the European Society for the History of Science holder: Brepols Publishers dt: @attributes: year: 2025 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|