Picturing knowledge : historical and philosophical problems concerning the use of art in science /
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
[1996]
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| Series: | Toronto studies in philosophy.
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Table of 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
- Descartes's scientific illustrations and 'la grande mécanique 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.