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Picturing Knowledge : Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science /
The traditional concept of scientific knowledge places a premium on thinking, not visualizing. Scientific illustrations are still generally regarded as devices that serve as heuristic aids when reasoning breaks down. When scientific illustration is not used in this disparaging sense as a linguistic...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
1996.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Didactic and the elegant : some thoughts on scientific and technological illustrations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance / Bert S. Hall
- Temples of the body and temples of the cosmos : vision and visualization in the Vesalian and Copernican revolutions / Martin Kemp
- Descartes's scientific illustrations and 'la grande mecanique de la nature' / Brian S. Baigrie
- Illustrating chemistry / David Knight
- Representations of the natural system in the nineteenth century / Robert J. O'Hara
- Visual representation in archaeology : depicting the missing-link in human origins / Stephanie Moser
- Towards an epistemology of scientific illustration / David Topper
- Illustration and inference / James R. Brown
- Visual models and scientific judgement / Ronald N. Giere
- Are pictures really necessary? The case of Sewall Wright's 'Adaptive landscapes' / Michael Ruse.