Science from Sight to Insight: How Scientists Illustrate Meaning - Couverture souple

Gross, Alan G.; Harmon, Joseph E.

 
9780226068480: Science from Sight to Insight: How Scientists Illustrate Meaning
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ISBN 10 : 022606848X ISBN 13 : 9780226068480
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2013

Synopsis

John Dalton’s molecular structures. Scatter plots and geometric diagrams. Watson and Crick’s double helix. The way in which scientists understand the world—and the key concepts that explain it—is undeniably bound up in not only words, but images. Moreover, from PowerPoint presentations to articles in academic journals, scientific communication routinely relies on the relationship between words and pictures. In Science from Sight to Insight, Alan G. Gross and Joseph E. Harmon present a short history of the scientific visual, and then formulate a theory about the interaction between the visual and textual. With great insight and admirable rigor, the authors argue that scientific meaning itself comes from the complex interplay between the verbal and the visual in the form of graphs, diagrams, maps, drawings, and photographs. The authors use a variety of tools to probe the nature of scientific images, from Heidegger’s philosophy of science to Peirce’s semiotics of visual communication. Their synthesis of these elements offers readers an examination of scientific visuals at a much deeper and more meaningful level than ever before.

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À propos des auteurs

Alan G. Gross is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota and is coauthor of The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour, also published by the University of Chicago Press.



Joseph E. Harmon is a senior editor/writer at Argonne National Laboratory and is coauthor of The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
022606848X
ISBN 13 
9780226068480
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
332
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  022606820X ISBN 13 :  9780226068206
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2013
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