Colouring Textiles is an attempt to provide a new cross-cultural comparative approach to the art of dyeing and printing with natural dyestuffs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Divided into thematic chapters, it uncovers new data from the vast historical heritage of natural dyestuffs from a range of European cities, to present new historiographic insights for the understanding of this technology. Through a sort of anatomic dissection, the book explores the study and cultivation of dye-plants in botanical gardens and plantations, and the tacit values hidden in dyeing...
Colouring Textiles is an attempt to provide a new cross-cultural comparative approach to the art of dyeing and printing with natural dyestuff...
Science in the Public Sphere presents a broad yet detailed picture of the history of science popularization from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. Global in focus, it provides an original theoretical framework for analysing the political load of science as an instrument of cultural hegemony and giving a voice to expert and lay protagonists throughout history.
Organised into a series of thematic chapters spanning diverse periods and places, this book covers subjects such as the representations of science in print, the media, classrooms and museums, orthodox and heterodox...
Science in the Public Sphere presents a broad yet detailed picture of the history of science popularization from the Renaissance to the twenty-firs...
First published in Spanish in 2011 with the title: Los paublicos de la ciencia: expertos y profanos a travaes de la historia (Madrid: Marcial Pons, Ediciones de Historia).
First published in Spanish in 2011 with the title: Los paublicos de la ciencia: expertos y profanos a travaes de la historia (Madrid: Marcial Pons, Ed...
