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The culture of diagram / John Bender and Michael Marrinan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bender, John B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Visualization.
- Visual perception.
- Art and science.
- Art, Modern--History.
- Art, Modern.
- Scientific literature--History.
- Scientific literature.
- Encyclopédie.
- Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784.
- Diderot, Denis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (295 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book defines diagrams as tools manipulated by users to produce new kinds of understanding and demonstrates that a modern diagrammatic knowledge emerged in eighteenth-century visual culture to become the foundation of later nineteenth-century science.
- Contents:
- Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 SCENARIO; 2 DIAGRAM; 3 DESCRIPTIONS; 4 VISUALIZATIONS; 5 NUMBERS; 6 CROSSINGS; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804773256
- 0804773254
- OCLC:
- 609856761
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