Understood in a broad sense as an exchange of knowledge among scholars, popularization looks back on a tradition that had begun already before the scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries and which has its roots in antiquity; a good example, and an early representative of the now rampant encyclopedism (Encyclopedia), is Grego Reisch’s Cyclopedia (1503). Spurred by the processes of the European Enlightenment, popularization really only took off in the early 19th…