caa a22 4500 463205677 CHVBK 20180405153125.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11191-006-9011-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11191-006-9011-4 Daniel Raichvarg CRCMD, University of Burgundy, 36 rue Chabot Charny, 21000, Dijon, France aut Science on the Fairgrounds: From Black to White Magic [Elektronische Daten] [Raichvarg Daniel] During the 18th and 19th centuries, numerous "entrepreneurs de spectacles scientifiques” — a new category of "stall-keepers” — travelled around France, displaying their scientific shows to the public. They turned out to be physics demonstrators, magicians, mechanical engineers or curators of museums of anatomy. A general survey of these shows is not easy because we have but few documents to consider. Through a various set of texts and pictures, we'll try to understand the general philosophy of these shows: the wonder, the novelty and the surprising are the key-ideas which prevail and not only the idea that these shows mostly deliver knowledge. But above all, we will see that these shows played an important part in popularizing the 19th century scientific achievement as well as achieving the 18th century goal of the Enlightenment. Finally, we may question and discuss the 21st century answer to the question of science understood as entertainment: "science'tainment” as we say: "info'tainment”! Springer, 2006 Science show nationallicence popularization of sciences nationallicence enlightment nationallicence Science & Education Springer-Verlag 16/6(2007-06-01), 585-591 0926-7220 16:6<585 2007 16 11191 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-006-9011-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-006-9011-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Daniel Raichvarg CRCMD, University of Burgundy, 36 rue Chabot Charny, 21000, Dijon, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Science & Education Springer-Verlag 16/6(2007-06-01), 585-591 0926-7220 16:6<585 2007 16 11191 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer