Description: Science from Sight to Insight : How Scientists Illustrate Meaning, Paperback by Gross, Alan G.; Harmon, Joseph E., ISBN 022606848X, ISBN-13 9780226068480, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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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Book Title: Science from Sight to Insight : How Scientists Illustrate Meaning
Number of Pages: 344 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Science from Sight to Insight : How Scientists Illustrate Meaning
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Philosophy & Social Aspects, Communication Studies, General
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.1 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines, Science
Author: Joseph E. Harmon, Alan G. Gross
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
