Science from Sight to Insight: How Scientists Illustrate Meaning

by Alan G. Gross and Joseph E. Harmon

John Dalton's molecular structures. Scatter plots and geometric diagrams. Watson and Crick's double helix. The way in which scientists understand the world--and the key concepts that explain it--is undeniably bound up in not only words, but images. Moreover, from PowerPoint presentations to articles in academic journals, scientific communication routinely relies on the relationship between words and pictures. In Science from Sight to Insight , Alan...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022606848X
• ISBN13: 9780226068480
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"