Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education.

Abstract

mind's release - Oriental Despotism, ingenious pastimes, rational recreations, The Boy's {and Girl's} Philosophy the visible invisible - systems of imposture, sleight-of-hand, a culture of operators, The Prince of the Charlatans laboratory games - the art of experimentation, body tricks, automata as learning machines, digital performances exhibitionism - spectacle of nature, the polymathic cabinet of curiosities, album of minutiae conclusion - the transit of information - looking forward, looking back, looking past.