Picturing knowledge: historical and philosophical problems concerning the use of art in science
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto, Ont. University of Toronto Press c1996
Series:Toronto studies in philosophy
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Didactic and the elegant : some thoughts on scientific and technological illustrations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance - Bert S. Hall -- - Temples of the body and temples of the cosmos : vision and visualization in the Vesalian and Copernican revolutions - Martin Kemp -- - Descartes's scientific illustrations and 'la grande mécanique de la nature' - Brian S. Baigrie -- - Illustrating chemistry - David Knight -- - Representations of the natural system in the nineteenth century - Robert J. O'Hara -- - Visual representation in archaeology : depicting the missing-link in human origins - Stephanie Moser -- - Towards an epistemology of scientific illustration - David Topper -- - Illustration and inference - James R. Brown -- - Visual models and scientific judgement - Ronald N. Giere -- - Are pictures really necessary? The case of Sewall Wright's 'Adaptive landscapes' - Michael Ruse
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 389 p.)
ISBN:144267847X
9780802029850
9780802074393
9781442678477

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