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

Published by University of Toronto Press 1996

Picturing Knowledge

Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science

Edited by: Brian Baigrie

In the series Toronto Studies in Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442678477

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About this book

The contributors to this volume examine the historical and philosophical issues concerning the role that scientific illustration plays in the creation of scientific knowledge.

Author / Editor information

Baigrie Brian :

Brian S. Baigrie is an associate professor in the Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the Universtiy of Toronto.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvii
1. The Didactic and the Elegant: Some Thoughts on Scientific and Technological Illustrations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Bert S. Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Temples of the Body and Temples of the Cosmos: Vision and Visualization in the Vesalian and Copernican Revolutions Martin Kemp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
3. Descartes’s Scientific Illustrations and ’la grande mecanique de la nature’ Brian S. Baigrie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
4. Illustrating Chemistry David Knight Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
5. Representations of the Natural System in the Nineteenth Century Robert J. O’Hara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
6. Visual Representation in Archaeology: Depicting the Missing-Link in Human Origins Stephanie Moser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
7. Towards an Epistemology of Scientific Illustration David Topper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
8. Illustration and Inference James Robert Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
9. Visual Models and Scientific Judgment Ronald N. Giere Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
10. Are Pictures Really Necessary? The Case of Sewall Wright’s ’Adaptive Landscapes’ Michael Ruse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 414
Illustrations
- Other: 118 b&w illustrations

eBook

Published: May 21, 1996
ISBN: 9781442678477