Visual Practices Across the University.

• Author: Elkins, James.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2007.; ©2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: German
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (303 pages)
• Other title: Introduction --; Chemistry: reading spectrograms --; Performance art: problems of documentation --; Field geology: deductions from beach stones --; Economics: sirens in classics, in philosophy, and in economic theory --; Linguistics: Medieval Irish color terms --; Astrophysics: doppler tomography of accretion disks --; Law: video-game technology in the Irish Bloody Sunday Tribunal --; Computer science: visualizing the internet --; Occupational therapy: exercises in doing, being, and becoming --; Speech and hearing science: speech spectrograms --; Restorative dentistry: matching colors in porcelain crowns --; Radio astronomy: observations of the galactic center --; Archaeology: imaging and mapping practices --; Mapping: uses of geological maps --; Art history: iconographic analysis --; Civil engineering: a high resolution aerial photograph --; Anatomy: fluorescence microscopy --; Aerodynamics: video analysis of pigeon flight --; Mathematics: visual solutions to a logic problem --; Applied social studies: masks in social work --; Pathology: diagnosis of a kidney disease --; Epigraphy: Three-dimensional laser scanning of inscribed stones --; Geochemistry: deformation of grains in sandstone --; Food science: electrophoresis gels of cheddar cheese --; Zoology: automated recognition of individual cetaceans --; Art history: political meanings of John Heartfield's photographs --; Microbiology: visualizing viruses --; Oceanography: Imaging the sea bed using side-scanning sonar --; Philosophy: Arabic and Russian visual tropes --; Legal pedagogy: teaching visual rhetoric to law students --; Afterword.
• ISBN: 3846743739
• Hierarchical level: Monograph