Centaurus. Journal of the European Society for the History of Science, Volume 67 (2025), Issue 2

Special Issue: Knowledge Screens: The Magic Lantern, Knowledge Making and Knowledge Communication, edited by Emily Hayes & Frank Kessler

Frank Kessler, Emily Hayes, Science on a Screen: Assessing the Magic Lantern’s Transnational Role in Science Communication

Martin Bush, Hsiang-Fu Huang, The Heavens on Screen: Visual Culture and the Development of Astronomical Lantern Slides in Early Victorian Britain

Frank Kessler, Gustave Le Bon: A ‘Scientific Irregular’ and His Media

Emily Hayes, The ‘Fin du Globe’? Rites of Space at The Shrine of Geography

Susan Squibb, In the University There Must be a Lantern: a Case Study from the School of Geography, University of Oxford, 1899–1914

Sabine Lenk, The Cité Scientifique and its Role in Introducing the Optical Lantern in Academic Teaching at Université Libre de Bruxelles

Martin Bush, Ian Donald Tasker, Astronomical Lantern Lecturing as a Political Strategy in Australian Observatories in the Early Twentieth Century

Anse De Weerdt, Shining Light on Fieldwork in the Congo Free State: Belgian Commander Charles Lemaire’s Lantern Lectures at the Royal Geographical Society of Antwerp (1898-1906)

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