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Traces : Generating What Was There.

Traces keep time and make the past visible. As such, they continue to be a fundamental resource for scientific knowledge production in modernity. While the art of trace reading is a millennia-old practice, tracings are specifically produced in the photographic archive or in the scientific laboratory...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bock von Wülfingen, Bettina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Inhalt; Editorial; Image Description; Layers of Operation. Lars Leksell's Neurosurgical Planning Image; Description, Experiment, and Model. Reading Traces in Paleobiological Research Exemplified by a Morpho-functional Analysis; Image Description; Visualizing Viruses. Notes on David S. Goodsell's Scientific Illustrations and Their Use in Molecular Biology between Picture Model and Trace; Microscopic Imaging. Interference, Intervention, Objectivity.
  • "It is not enough, in order to understand the Book of Nature, to turn over the pages looking at the pictures. Painful though it may be, it will be necessary to learn to read the text." Visual Evidence in the Life Sciences, c. 1960Giving a Theory a Material Body. Staining Technique and the "Autarchy of the Nucleus" since 1876; Interview; Traces and Patterns. Pictures of Interferences and Collisions in the Physics Lab A Dialogue between Dr. Anne Dippel and Dr. Lukas Mairhofer; Liquid or Globular? On the History of Gestalt-seeing in the Life Sciences of the Early 19th Century.
  • Traces of Bodies and Operational Portraits. On the Construction of Pictorial EvidenceReduced Complexity or Essentialism? Medical Knowledge and "Reading Traces" in the History of Art; Image Credits; Authors.