Visual cultures in science and technology : a comparative history / Klaus Hentschel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hentschel, Klaus, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scientific illustration.

Visual communication in science.

Physical Description:

x, 496 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Contents:

0 Preface and acknowledgments 1

A quick guide through this book 7

1 Introduction 9

1.1 Cultures, scopic regimes and visual domains 9

1.2 Visual versus textual 28

1.3 Text-image interplay and ekphrasis 41

1.4 Visual rhetoric - arguments with images and models 51

1.5 Alpers on the "Dutch connection" 62

1.6 Instruments for creating and recording images 64

1.7 A few deep insights from early 'visual studies' 69

1.8 Later wrong turns of "the visual turn" 76

2 Historiographic layers of visual science cultures 81

2.1 'Visual culture' vs. 'visual studies' 82

2.2 My account of visual cultures as superimposed layers 84

3 Formation of visual science cultures 87

3.1 Rudwick on geology 87

3.2 The architects of stereochemistry 92

3.3 Sorby: Microscopic petrography and metallography 99

3.4 Wheeler and geometrodynamics 107

4 Pioneers of visual science cultures 113

4.1 Some examples: Scheiner, Lambert, Young, Nasmyth 113

4.2 Iconophile versus iconophobe types 135

4.3 A prosopography of spectroscopists 142

4.4 Generalizability of these claims 154

5 Transfer of visual techniques 164

5.1 The gradual diffusion of perspectival drawing 169

5.2 Indicator diagrams from industrial secret to thermodynamics 180

5.3 NMR: From physics to chemistry and medicine (MRI) 188

5.4 CT and PET scanners in medicine 200

6 Support by illustrators and image technicians 206

6.1 Leonhart Fuchs and his team of artisans 209

6.2 Linus Pauling and Roger Hayward 217

6.3 Friction between scientist and illustrator 229

7 One image rarely comes alone 233

7.1 Nickelsen on copy relations in botanical illustrations 234

7.2 Diachronic succession of printing techniques 237

7.3 Near-synchronous chains of representation 238

7.4 Cinematographic images and science films 241

7.5 The drift of scientific images into the public sphere 258

7.6 Viscourse on top of discourse 262

8 Practical training in visual skills 264

8.1 Technical drawing in France, Germany and Britain 265

8.2 Slides, posters and plates in training scientists 277

8.3 X-ray atlases and training radiologists 281

9 Mastery of pattern recognition 291

9.1 Visual inventories of possibilities 291

9.2 The illusory pattern of Martian canals 297

9.3 Electron microscopy 310

9.4 Interobserver and intraobserver variability in CT scan 317

10 Visual thinking in scientific and technological practice 321

10.1 Gooding on Faraday and fossils 327

10.2 Crystallographic puzzles: space models and x-ray diffraction 331

10.3 Suspension bridge construction 341

11 Recurrent color taxonomies 348

11.1 Gauging the blue of the sky: cyanometry 353

11.2 Mineralogical color codes 358

12 Aesthetic fascination as a visual culture's binding glue 362

12.1 Mineralogical cabinets and collectors 364

12.2 Beauty contests for electron-microscope images 368

13 Issues of visual perception 374

13.1 Jules Janssen: black drops and solar granulation 374

13.2 Recording the invisible 383

14 Visuality through and through 387.

ISBN:

9780198717874

0198717873

OCLC:

891658372