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)

Table of Contents

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.