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Visual cultures in science and technology : a comparative history

Title
Visual cultures in science and technology : a comparative history / Klaus Hentschel.
Author
Hentschel, Klaus
Publication
  • Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014.
  • ©2014
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Book/TextUse in library JFF 17-1058Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Description
x, 496 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm
Subject
  • Scientific illustration
  • Visual communication in science
  • Science > history
  • Medical Illustration > history
  • Technology > history
  • Communication > history
  • Visual Perception
  • History, Modern 1601-
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-482) and index.
Language (note)
  • Text in English.
Contents
Introduction : Cultures, scopic regimes and visual domains ; Visual versus textual ; Text-image interplay and ekphrasis ; Visual rhetoric: arguments with images and models ; Alpers on the "Dutch connection" ; Instruments for creating and recording images ; A few deep insights from early 'visual studies' ; Later wrong turns of the "visual turn" -- Historiographic layers of visual science cultures : 'Visual culture' vs. 'visual studies' ; My account of visual cultures as superimposed layers -- Formation of visual science cultures : Rudwick on geology ; The architects of stereochemistry ; Sorby: microscopic petrography and metallography ; Wheeler and geometrodynamics -- Pioneers of visual science cultures : Some examples: Scheiner, Lambert, Young, Nasmyth ; Iconophile versus iconophobe types ; A prosopography of spectroscopists ; Generalizability of these claims -- Transfer of visual techniques : The gradual diffusion of perspectival drawing ; Indicator diagrams from industrial secret to thermodynamics ; NMR: from physics to chemistry and medicine (MRI) ; CT and PET scanners in medicine -- Support by illustrators and image technicians : Leonhart Fuchs and his team of artisans ; Friction between scientist and illustrator -- One image rarely comes alone : Nickelsen on copy relations in botanical illustrations ; Diachromic succession of printing techniques ; Near-synchronous chains of representation ; Cinematographic images and science films ; The drift of scientific images into the public sphere ; Viscourse on top of discourse -- Practical training in visual skills : Technical drawing in France, Germany and Britain ; Slides, posters and plates in training scientists ; X-ray atlases and training radiologists -- Mastery of pattern recognition : Visual inventories of possibilities ; The illusory pattern of Martian canals ; Electron microscopy ; Interobserver and intraobserver variability in CT scans -- Visual thinking in scientific and technological practice : Gooding on Faraday and fossils ; Crystallographic puzzles: space models and x-ray diffraction ; Suspension bridge construction -- Recurrent color taxonomies : Gauging the blue of the sky: cyanometry ; MIneralogical color codes -- Aesthetic fascination as a visual culture's binding glue : MIneralogical cabinets and collectors ; Beauty contests from electron-microscope images -- Issues of visual perception : Jules Janssen: black drops and solar granulation ; Recording the invisible -- Visuality through and through.
Call Number
JFF 17-1058
ISBN
  • 9780198717874
  • 0198717873
LCCN
2014938233
OCLC
891658372
Author
Hentschel, Klaus, author.
Title
Visual cultures in science and technology : a comparative history / Klaus Hentschel.
Publisher
Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Copyright Date
©2014
Edition
First Edition.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-482) and index.
Language
Text in English.
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