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UNINA9910818845703321 |
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Titolo |
Picturing knowledge : historical and philosophical problems concerning the use of art in science / / edited by Brian S. Baigrie |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1996 |
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©1996 |
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ISBN |
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1-4426-5435-X |
1-282-04558-X |
9786612045585 |
1-4426-7847-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (414 p.) |
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Collana |
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Toronto Studies in Philosophy |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Scientific illustration - History |
Scientific illustration - Philosophy |
History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 -- Descartes's scientific illustrations and 'la grande mecanique de la nature' / Brian 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 inference / James R. Brown -- Visual models and scientific judgement / Ronald N. Giere -- Are pictures really necessary? The case of Sewall Wright's 'Adaptive landscapes' / Michael Ruse. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The traditional concept of scientific knowledge places a premium on thinking, not visualizing. Scientific illustrations are still generally regarded as devices that serve as heuristic aids when reasoning breaks |
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