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Show And Tell: The Dramatic Story Of Nineteenth-century Geological Science

机译:展示与讲述:19世纪地质学的戏剧性故事

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The restorations of giant saurian monsters at the Crystal Palace Gardens at Sydenham in 1854, monsters resilient enough to survive the 1936 fire which burned the Palace to the ground, are of course well known. But what came before the Crystal Palace monsters? How did the Victorians and their immediate predecessors get to imaginative grips with a newly revealed prehistoric past, for which new and startling evidences were constantly being unearthed? Until now, the answer to this question has been sought mainly in nineteenth-century visual culture: in the diagrams, illustrations, maps, paintings, models and exhibitions which made visible a past which had never been witnessed by man.' But these visual traditions, familiar to us through dinosaur movies and popular museums, were only part of the story, as The earth on show-sumptuously illustrated and elegantly written-deftly explores. Illustrations and diagrams, paintings and panoramas were made comprehensible to their audiences through text: the guidebooks, descriptions, fictional excerpts, and poetic quotations which were a ubiquitous component of geological visual display. Such textual forms were not only inseparable from the images and models they accompanied, contributing to their contemporary meaning and reception, but also played demonstrable roles in creating the authority a new science needed to articulate its ideas to an initially sceptical public.
机译:当然,众所周知,1854年在Sydenham的水晶宫花园中摆放了巨型秋刀鱼的怪兽,这些怪兽具有足够的韧性以承受1936年的大火,烧毁了宫殿。但是在水晶宫的怪物面前发生了什么?维多利亚州人及其直系前辈如何通过新近揭示的史前历史来不断发挥想象力,为此不断发掘新的惊人证据?到目前为止,主要在19世纪的视觉文化中寻求这个问题的答案:在图表,插图,地图,绘画,模型和展览中,可以看到人类从未见过的过去。但是,通过恐龙电影和受欢迎的博物馆为我们所熟悉的这些视觉传统,只是故事的一部分,就像展览中的《地球》(The Earth)上精美的插图和优美的书面探究一样。插图和图表,绘画和全景图通过文字使听众容易理解:指南,描述,虚构摘录和诗意语录是地质视觉展示中无处不在的组成部分。这样的文本形式不仅与其所伴随的图像和模型密不可分,有助于它们的当代意义和接受度,而且在创建权威以证明其对最初持怀疑态度的公众阐明其新思想所需的新科学方面发挥着可证明的作用。

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