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Picturing Knowledge : Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science.
The contributors to this volume examine the historical and philosophical issues concerning the role that scientific illustration plays in the creation of scientific knowledge.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
1996.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Colección: | Toronto studies in philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. The Didactic and the Elegant: Some Thoughts on Scientific and Technological Illustrations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- 2. Temples of the Body and Temples of the Cosmos: Vision and Visualization in the Vesalian and Copernican Revolutions
- 3. Descartes's Scientific Illustrations and 'la grande mécanique de la nature'
- 4. Illustrating Chemistry
- 5. Representations of the Natural System in the Nineteenth Century
- 6. Visual Representation in Archaeology: Depicting the Missing-Link in Human Origins
- 7. Towards an Epistemology of Scientific Illustration
- 8. Illustration and Inference
- 9. Visual Models and Scientific Judgment
- 10. Are Pictures Really Necessary? The Case of Sewall Wright's 'Adaptive Landscapes'
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
- Z.