PICTURING KNOWLEDGE: HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICA

EDITADO POR BRIAN S. BAIGRIE

PICTURING KNOWLEDGE: HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICA

BAIGRIE, BRIAN S.

2330

0-8020-7439-1

Libro

1996

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

XXIV, 389 P.

23 CM.

Inglés

1. ILUSTRACION CIENTIFICA - HISTORIA 2. ILUSTRACION CIENTIFICA - FILOSOFIA

ICLUYE REFERENCIAS BIBLIOGRAFICAS [P.339-371] E INDICE

CONTENTS: DIDACTIC AND THE ELEGANT: SOME THOUGHTS ON SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE / BERT S. HALL - TEMPLES OF THE BODY AND TEMPLES OF THE COSMOS: VISION AND VISUALIZATION IN THE VESALIAN AND COPERNICAN REVOLUTIONS / MARTIN KEMP - DESCARTE'S SCIENTIFIC ILLUSTRATIONS AND 'LA GRANDE MECANIQUE DE LA NATURE' / BRIANS S. BAIGRIE - ILLUSTRATING CHEMISTRY / DAVID KNIGHT - REPRESENTATIONS OF THE NATURAL SYSTEM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY / ROBERT J. O'HARA - VISUAL REPRESENTATION IN ARCHAEOLOGY: DEPICTING THE MISSING-LINK IN HUMAN ORIGINS / STEPHANIE MOSER - TOWARDS AN EPISTEMOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC ILLUSTRATION / DAVID TOPPER - ILLUSTRATION AND CONFERENCE / JAMES R. BROWN - VISUAL MODELS AND SCIENTIFIC JUDGEMENT / RONALD N. GIERE - ARE PICTURES REALLY NECESSARY

Q222 P53 1996

TORONTO STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY