The technical image : a history of styles in scientific imagery / edited by Horst Bredekamp, Vera Dünkel, and Birgit Schneider.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bredekamp, Horst, 1947- editor.

Dünkel, Vera, editor.

Schneider, Birgit, 1972- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Technische Bild. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Technical illustration.

Scientific illustration.

Digital images.

Physical Description:

x, 198 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press : New York City : Published in association with the Bard Graduate Center, [2015]

Contents:

Foreword / Peter Miller

Introduction: the image: a cultural technology: a research program for a critical analysis of images / Horst Bredekamp, Birgit Schneider, Vera Dünkel

Methods. Discourses about pictures: considerations on the particular challenges : natural-scientific pictures pose for the theory of the picture / Gabriele Werner

Comparing images. A history of styles of technical imagery: between description and interpretation: a conversation with Horst Bredekamp

Iconological analysis. Beyond the icons of knowledge: artistic styles and the art history of scientific imagery / Matthias Bruhn

Case studies. Interacting with images: toward a history of the digital image: the case of graphical user interfaces / Margarete Pratschke

Digital images. Pictorial tradition and difference: visual knowledge in acquisition science: the case of scanning tunneling microscopy / Jochen Hennig

Chains of representations. Thinking with models: on the genesis of James Watson's molecular biology of the gene / Reinhard Wendler

Arranging images as tableaux. Technological image series: the project "technik im bild" at the Deutsches Museum, Munich / Heike Weber

Observation techniques. In the eye of the beholder: Emanuel Goldberg's apparatuses at the international photographic exhibition, Dresden 1909 / Franziska Brons

Objectivity and evidence. X-ray vision and shadow image: on the specificity of early radiographs and their interpretations around 1900 / Vera Dünkel

Visuality, Visualizing, Imaging. Instrument-aided vision and the imagination: the migration of worms and dragons in early microscopy / Stefan Ditzen

Image noise. Programmed images: systems of notation in seventeenth- and eighteenth century weaving / Birgit Schneider

Diagrammatics. Eearly modern images of musical automata: on Athanasius Kircher's Trompe- L'Oreille contemplations in the Quirinal gardens in Rome / Angela Mayer-Deutsch

Popularizing science. Drawing and the contemplation of nature: natural history around 1600: the case of Aldrovandi's images / Angela Fischel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-192) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780226258843

022625884X

OCLC:

890757514