Spontaneous Generations, Vol 6, No 1 (2012): Visual Representation and Science
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*Spontaneous Generations, Vol 6, No 1 (2012): Visual
Representation and
Science*
*Focused Discussion*
Ari Gross, Eleanor Louson. Visual Representation and
Science: Editors'
Introduction
Sachiko Kusukawa. Thomas Kirke’s Copy of Philosophical
Transactions
Barbara Obrist. Visual Representation and Science: Visual
Figures of the Universe between Antiquity and the Early Thirteenth Century
Laurent Dissard. Seeing the Past from Nowhere: Images and
Science in Archaeology
Matt Spencer. Trouble with Images in Computational
Physics
Martin Kemp. “The testimony of my own eyes”: The Strange
Case of the Mammal with a Beak
Cindy Stelmackowich. The Instructive Corpse: Dissection,
Anatomical Specimens, and Illustration in Early Nineteenth-Century Medical
Education
Koen Beumer. A Matter of Scale: The Visual Representation
of Nanotechnologies
Martin Mahony, Mike Hulme. The Colour of Risk: An
Exploration of the IPCC’s “Burning Embers” Diagram
Jennifer Tucker. “The hidden world of science”: Nature as
Art in 1930’s American Print Advertising
Annamaria Carusi. Making the Visual Visible in Philosophy
of Science
Stephen M. Downes. How Much Work Do Scientific Images Do?
William Goodwin. Visual Representations of Structure and
the Dynamics of Scientific Modeling
Laura Perini. Truth-bearers or Truth-makers?
Michael Jeremy Barany. “That small and unsensible shape”:
Visual Representations of the Euclidean Point in Sixteenth-Century Print
Elie During. On the Intrinsically Ambiguous Nature of
Space-Time Diagrams
Adrian Wüthrich. Interpreting Feynman Diagrams as Visual
Models
Klaus Hentschel. The Stuttgart Database of Scientific
Illustrators
1450–1950: Making the Invisible Hands Visible
Edward Jones-Imhotep. Sound and Vision
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*Articles*
Ian Lowrie. On Adaptive Optics: The Historical
Constitution of Architectures for Expert Perception in Astronomy
* Opinions*
Maura C. Flannery. Flatter than a Pancake: Why Scanning
Herbarium Sheets Shouldn't Make Them Disappear
Bruce Taylor. Holdings
*Reviews*
Michael T. Stuart. REVIEW: James R. Brown, Laboratory of
the Mind
Cory Lewis. REVIEW: Frederick Grinnell, The Everyday
Practice of
Science:
Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic
Ignacio Suay-Matallana, Mar Cuenca-Lorente. “Visual
Representations in
Science”: Review of the 6th European Spring School on
History of Science and Popularization: International Workshop, May 19-21 2011,
Maó, Menorca, Spain
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