Picturing Knowledge

Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science

By: Brian Baigrie (Editor)

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Paperback | 25 May 1996 | Edition Number 2

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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.

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List of Illustrations
Introduction
The Didactic and the Elegant: Some Thoughts on Scientific and Technological Illustrations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance	p. 3
Temples of the Body and Temples of the Cosmos: Vision and Visualization in the Vesalian and Copernican Revolutions	p. 40
Descartes's Scientific Illustrations and 'la grande mecanique de la nature'	p. 86
Illustrating Chemistry	p. 135
Representations of the Natural System in the Nineteenth Century	p. 164
Visual Representation in Archaeology: Depicting the Missing-Link in Human Origins	p. 184
Towards an Epistemology of Scientific Illustration	p. 215
Illustration and Inference	p. 250
Visual Models and Scientific Judgment	p. 269
Are Pictures Really Necessary? The Case of Sewall Wright's 'Adaptive Landscapes'	p. 303
Bibliography	p. 339
Notes on Contributors	p. 373
Index	p. 377
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