Science in Color : : Visualizing Achromatic Knowledge / / ed. by Bettina Bock von Wülfingen.
Color makes its way into natural science images as early as the research process. It serves for self-reflection and for communication within the scientific community. However, color does not follow a standard in the natural sciences: its meaning is contingent, even though culturally conditioned. Dig...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Editorial -- COLOR AND ITS MEANING FOR THE SCIENCES -- Color in Medical Images -- Color as the Other? Absence and Reappearance of Chromophobia in Eighteenth-Century France -- Research on Color Matters: Towards a Modern Archaeology of Ancient Polychromies -- Do Signs Make Logic Colored? Tendencies Around 1900 and Earlier -- Coloring the Fourth Dimension? Coloring Polytopes and Complex Curves at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- Encoding Color: Between Perception and Signal -- MEANINGFUL COLORS IN THE SCIENCES -- Green Is Refreshing: Techniques, Technologies and Epistemologies of Nineteenth-Century Color Therapies -- Pigments, Natural History and Primary Qualities: How Orange Became a Color -- An Evaluation of Color Maps for Visual Data Exploration -- The Use of Color in Geographic Maps -- Historical and Scientific Note of Color Duplex Doppler Ultrasound and Imaging -- Diagrammatic Traditions: Color in Metabolic Maps -- Pink and Blue Science. A Gender History of Color in Psychology -- Image Credits -- Authors |
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Summary: | Color makes its way into natural science images as early as the research process. It serves for self-reflection and for communication within the scientific community. However, color does not follow a standard in the natural sciences: its meaning is contingent, even though culturally conditioned. Digital publishing enhances the use of color in scientific publications; at the same time, globalization promotes the idea of universal color symbolism. This book investigates the function of color in historical and current visualizations for scientific purposes, its epistemic role as a tool, and its long neglect due to symbolic and gender-specific connotations. The publication thus closes a research gap in the natural sciences and the humanities. Color makes its way into natural science images as early as the research process. It serves for self-reflection and for communication within the scientific community. However, color does not follow a standard in the natural sciences: its meaning is contingent, even though culturally conditioned. Digital publishing enhances the use of color in scientific publications; at the same time, globalization promotes the idea of universal color symbolism. This book investigates the function of color in historical and current visualizations for scientific purposes, its epistemic role as a tool, and its long neglect due to symbolic and gender-specific connotations. The publication thus helps to bridge a long standing research gap in the natural sciences and the humanities. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110605211 9783110719567 9783110605785 9783110610017 9783110616859 9783110610765 9783110664232 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110605211 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Bettina Bock von Wülfingen. |