Science in color : visualizing achromatic knowledge / Bettina Bock von Wülfingen (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bock von Wülfingen, Bettina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Color.

Visualization.

Science.

Polychromy.

Science and the humanities.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

238 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts, facsimiles, maps, portrait ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2019]

Summary:

Color makes its way into natural science images as early as the research process. It serves for self-reflection and for communication within the scientific community. However, color does not follow a standard in the natural sciences: its meaning is contingent, even though culturally conditioned. Digital publishing enhances the use of color in scientific publications; at the same time, globalization promotes the idea of universal color symbolism. This book investigates the function of color in historical and current visualizations for scientific purposes, its epistemic role as a tool, and its long neglect due to symbolic and gender-specific connotations. The publication thus closes a research gap in the natural sciences and the humanities.

Contents:

Color and Its Meaning for the Sciences

Color in Medical Images p. 19 / Aldo Badano

Color as the Other? Absence and Reappearance of Chromophobia in Eighteenth-Century France p. 33 / Ulrike Boskamp

Research on Color Matters: Towards a Modern Archaeology of Ancient Poly-chromies p. 51 / Alexander Nagel

Do Signs Make Logic Colored? Tendencies Around 1900 and Earlier p. 65 / Esther Ramharter

Coloring the Fourth Dimension? Coloring Polytopes and Complex Curves at the End of the Nineteenth Century p. 81 / Michael Friedman

Encoding Color: Between Perception and Signal p. 99 / Ricardo Cedeño Montaña

Meaningful Colors in the Sciences

Green Is Refreshing: Techniques, Technologies and Epistemologies of Nineteenth-Century Color Therapies p. 117 / Michael Rossi

Pigments, Natural History and Primary Qualities: How Orange Became a Color p. 133 / Ian Lawson

An Evaluation of Color Maps for Visual Data Exploration p. 147 / Daniel Baum

The Use of Color in Geographic Maps p. 163 / Jana Moser and Philipp Meyer

Historical and Scientific Note of Color Duplex Doppler Ultrasound and Imaging p. 181 / Jean-Francois Moreau and Raffaele Pisano and Jean-Michel Correas

Diagrammatic Traditions: Color in Metabolic Maps p. 195 / Bettina Bock von Wülfingen

Pink and Blue Science. A Gender History of Color in Psychology p. 219 / Dominique Grisard.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

311060468X

9783110604689

OCLC:

1076806761