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9780802074393

Picturing Knowledge

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  • ISBN13:

    9780802074393

  • ISBN10:

    0802074391

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-04-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

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Summary

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 aid, it is most often employed as a metaphor with no special visual content. What distinguishes pictorial devices as resources for doing science, and the special problems that are raised by the mere presence of visual elements in scientific treatises, tends to be overlooked. The contributors to this volume examine the historical and philosophical issues concerning the role that scientific illustration plays in the creation of scientific knowledge. They regard both text and picture as resources that scientists employ in their practical activities, their value as scientific resources deriving from their ability to convey information.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Introduction
The Didactic and the Elegant: Some Thoughts on Scientific and Technological Illustrations in the Middle Ages and Renaissancep. 3
Temples of the Body and Temples of the Cosmos: Vision and Visualization in the Vesalian and Copernican Revolutionsp. 40
Descartes's Scientific Illustrations and 'la grande mecanique de la nature'p. 86
Illustrating Chemistryp. 135
Representations of the Natural System in the Nineteenth Centuryp. 164
Visual Representation in Archaeology: Depicting the Missing-Link in Human Originsp. 184
Towards an Epistemology of Scientific Illustrationp. 215
Illustration and Inferencep. 250
Visual Models and Scientific Judgmentp. 269
Are Pictures Really Necessary? The Case of Sewall Wright's 'Adaptive Landscapes'p. 303
Bibliographyp. 339
Notes on Contributorsp. 373
Indexp. 377
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