Biology in the Grid: Graphic Design and the Envisioning of Life

by Phillip Thurtle

How grids paved the way for our biological understanding of organisms

As one of the most visual sciences, biology has an aesthetic dimension that lends force and persuasion to scientific arguments: how things are arranged on a page, how texts are interspersed with images, and how images are composed reflect deep-seated beliefs about how life exists on Earth. Biology in the Grid traces how our current understanding of life...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517902770
• ISBN13: 9781517902773
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"