Scientific visual representations in history
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Scientific visual representations in history
Springer, c2023
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book explores continuity and ruptures in the historical use of visual representations in science and related disciplines such as art history and anthropology. The book also considers more recent developments that attest to the unprecedented importance of scientific visualizations, such as video recordings, animations, simulations, graphs, and enhanced realities. The volume collects historical reflections concerned with the use of visual material, visualization, and vision in science from a historical perspective, ranging across multiple cultures from antiquity until present day.
The focus is on visual representations such as drawings, prints, tables, mathematical symbols, photos, data visualizations, mapping processes, and (on a meta-level) visualizations of data extracted from historical sources to visually support the historical research itself. Continuity and ruptures between the past and present use of visual material are presented against the backdrop of the epistemic functions of visual material in science. The function of visual material is defined according to three major epistemic categories: exploration, transformation, and transmission of knowledge.
Table of Contents
ForewordMatteo Valleriani, Giulia Giannini, Enrico Giannetto
Section 1 - Transmission
Visual Culture of University Knowledge: The Lecture Notebooks from Louvain and Douai (17th-18th centuries)
Gwendoline de Muelenaere - University of Louvain, Belgium
The Illustrated Printed Page as a Tool for Thinking and Transmitting Knowledge. The Case of Renaissance Astronomical Books
Isabelle Pantin - Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris, France
Representing Experience in the Early Royal Society. The Case of Robert Hooke?s Micrographia (1665)
Salvatore Ricciardo - University of Bergamo, Italy
Vision on Vision: Early Modern Scientific Images on Cosmology Explored by Means of Second Order Images
Matteo Valleriani - Max Planck Institute for the History of Science - Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany
Florian Krautli - Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany
Section 2 - Transformation
Theorizing Technology: Theoria, Diagram, and Artifact in Hero of Alexandria
Courtney Roby - Cornell University, USA
Artistic 'Libido' and Scientific Truth in 16th Century Woodcut Illustrations
Magdalena Bushart - Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany
Capturing, Modeling, Overviewing and Making Credible: The Functions of Visual at the Accademia del Cimento
Giulia Giannini - Universita Statale di Milano, Italy
The Transformations of Physico-Mathematical Visual Thinking: from Descartes to Quantum Physics
Enrico Giannetto - University of Bergamo, Italy
Section 3 - Exploration
Transporting Asian and Australasian Nature to Europe: Photographs from the Voyage of HMS. Challenger 1872-1876
Stephanie Hood - Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany
Visualising Biodata in the Laboratory. Image-makers, Practices and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology
Silvia Casini - The University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Arguing from Appearance: The Numerical Reconstruction of Galactic Tails and Bridges
Matthias Schemmel - Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany
Ethnoscience and Spatial Representations of Climate Change
Elena Bougleux - University of Bergamo, Italy
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