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Picturing Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science

✍ Scribed by Brian Baigrie (editor)

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Leaves
413
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

The contributors to this volume examine the historical and philosophical issues concerning the role that scientific illustration plays in the creation of scientific knowledge.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
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 mecanique 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

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