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

Picturing Knowledge Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science
Picturing Knowledge Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science, 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 us, Picturing Knowledge Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science has a rating of 3.5 stars
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Picturing Knowledge Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science, 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 us, Picturing Knowledge Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science
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  • Picturing Knowledge Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science
  • Written by author Brian S. Baigrie
  • Published by University of Toronto Press, 1996/05/25
  • 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 us
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Introduction
1 The Didactic and the Elegant: Some Thoughts on Scientific and Technological Illustrations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 3
2 Temples of the Body and Temples of the Cosmos: Vision and Visualization in the Vesalian and Copernican Revolutions 40
3 Descartes's Scientific Illustrations and 'la grande mecanique de la nature' 86
4 Illustrating Chemistry 135
5 Representations of the Natural System in the Nineteenth Century 164
6 Visual Representation in Archaeology: Depicting the Missing-Link in Human Origins 184
7 Towards an Epistemology of Scientific Illustration 215
8 Illustration and Inference 250
9 Visual Models and Scientific Judgment 269
10 Are Pictures Really Necessary? The Case of Sewall Wright's 'Adaptive Landscapes' 303
Bibliography 339
Notes on Contributors 373
Index 377


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