Science in Color : : Visualizing Achromatic Knowledge / / ed. by Bettina Bock von Wülfingen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Badano, Aldo,; Baum, Daniel,; Boskamp, Ulrike,; Cedeño Montaña, Ricardo,; Correas, Jean-Michel,; Friedman, Michael,; Grisard, Dominique,; Lawson, Ian,; Meyer, Philipp,; Moreau, Jean-François,; Moser, Jana,; Nagel, Alexander,; Pisano, Raffaele,; Ramharter, Esther,; Rossi, Michael,; Wülfingen, Bettina Bock von,
• HerausgeberIn: Bock von Wülfingen, Bettina,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (239 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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