Visual Cultures in Science and Technology
A Comparative History
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 October 2014
- ISBN 9780198717874
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages512 pages
- Size 253x182x33 mm
- Weight 1228 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 126 b/w illustrations, 16pp colour plates 0
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Short description:
What makes a good scientific image? Is science defined by its pictures? The present book offers a broad comparative survey of the history, generation, use and function of images in scientific practice based on an extensive range of historical sources in the natural sciences, technology and medicine, particularly physics, astronomy, and chemistry.
MoreLong description:
This book is offers a broad, comparative survey of a booming field within the history of science: the history, generation, use, and function of images in scientific practice. It explores every aspect of visuality in science, arguing for the concept of visual domains. What makes a good scientific image? What cultural baggage is essential to it? Is science indeed defined by its pictures?
This book attempts a synthesis. It delves into the rich reservoir of case studies on visual representations in scientific and technological practice that have accumulated over the past couple of decades by historians, sociologists, and philosophers of science. The main aim is thus located on the meta-level. It adopts an integrative view of recurrently noted general features of visual cultures in science and technology, something hitherto unachieved and believed by many to be a mission impossible.
By systematic comparison of numerous case studies, the purview broadens away from myopic microanalysis in search of overriding patterns. The many different disciplines and research areas involved encompass mathematics, technology, natural history, medicine, the geosciences, astronomy, chemistry, and physics. The chosen examples span the period from the Renaissance to the late 20th century. The broad range of visual representations in scientific practice is treated, as well as schooling in pattern recognition, design and implementation of visual devices, and a narrowing in on the special role of illustrators and image specialists.
This fine work is a survey of the history, use, and function of the image in the practice of science. ... The book is very readable, amply illustrated, and carefully documented; the biography alone exceeds 80 pages. Highly recommended.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Historiographic layers of visual science cultures
Formation of visual science cultures
Pioneers of visual science cultures
Transfer of visual techniques
Support by illustrators and image technicians
One image rarely comes alone
Practical training in visual skills
Mastery of pattern recognition
Visual thinking in scientic and technological practice
Recurrent color taxonomies
Aesthetic fascination as a visual culture's binding glue
Issues of visual perception
Visuality through and through
