Figurative lights: Images of Techno-Scientific slides and Secularization in Spain during the 18th Century

Figurative lights: Images of Techno-Scientific slides and Secularization in Spain during the 18th Century

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This paper asembles and studies a set of iconological representations linked to technical and scientific transformations during the eighteenth Century in Spain, reading them in a johnny cash style clothing dialectic between modern science, Enlightenment policies and popular culture.After analyzing the emergence of representations both of science and scientists according to the process of institutionalizing science as a socio-professional language, two specific eighteenth century technologies are studied: magic lanterns and aerostats.By interpreting their first images and their infiltration into popular and read more official speeches and the imagination of the moment, it is argued that in those images a tale of demo-Enlightenment is expressed, a tale about secularization and progress as a collective aesthetic experience.