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Visual cultures in science and technology : a comparative history

por Hentschel, Klaus

Publicado por : Oxford University Press (New York (Estados Unidos)) Detalles físicos: x, 496 páginas., [7] páginas de láminas ilustraciones, fotografías ISBN:9780198717874; 0198717873.

Año : 2016

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Tipo de ítem	Ubicación actual	Colección	Signatura	Copia número	Estado	Fecha de vencimiento	Código de barras	Reserva de ítems
Libro	Claustro 2do piso	Libro	502 H527vi (Navegar estantería)	Ej.1	Disponible		100151840

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Introduction : Cultures, scopic regimes and visual domains ; Visual versus textual ; Text-image interplay and ekphrasis ; Visual rhetoric: arguments with images and models ; Alpers on the "Dutch connection" ; Instruments for creating and recording images ; A few deep insights from early 'visual studies' ; Later wrong turns of the "visual turn" -- Historiographic layers of visual science cultures : 'Visual culture' vs. 'visual studies' ; My account of visual cultures as superimposed layers -- Formation of visual science cultures : Rudwick on geology ; The architects of stereochemistry ; Sorby: microscopic petrography and metallography ; Wheeler and geometrodynamics -- Pioneers of visual science cultures : Some examples: Scheiner, Lambert, Young, Nasmyth ; Iconophile versus iconophobe types ; A prosopography of spectroscopists ; Generalizability of these claims -- Transfer of visual techniques : The gradual diffusion of perspectival drawing ; Indicator diagrams from industrial secret to thermodynamics ; NMR: from physics to chemistry and medicine (MRI) ; CT and PET scanners in medicine -- Support by illustrators and image technicians : Leonhart Fuchs and his team of artisans ; Friction between scientist and illustrator -- One image rarely comes alone : Nickelsen on copy relations in botanical illustrations ; Diachromic succession of printing techniques ; Near-synchronous chains of representation ; Cinematographic images and science films ; The drift of scientific images into the public sphere ; Viscourse on top of discourse -- Practical training in visual skills : Technical drawing in France, Germany and Britain ; Slides, posters and plates in training scientists ; X-ray atlases and training radiologists -- Mastery of pattern recognition : Visual inventories of possibilities ; The illusory pattern of Martian canals ; Electron microscopy ; Interobserver and intraobserver variability in CT scans -- Visual thinking in scientific and technological practice : Gooding on Faraday and fossils ; Crystallographic puzzles: space models and x-ray diffraction ; Suspension bridge construction -- Recurrent color taxonomies : Gauging the blue of the sky: cyanometry ; MIneralogical color codes -- Aesthetic fascination as a visual culture's binding glue : MIneralogical cabinets and collectors ; Beauty contests from electron-microscope images -- Issues of visual perception : Jules Janssen: black drops and solar granulation ; Recording the invisible -- Visuality through and through.

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