Scientific Visual Representations in History

Foreword

Matteo Valleriani, Giulia Giannini, Enrico Giannetto

Section 1 - Transmission

Visual Culture of University Knowledge: The Lecture Notebooks from Louvain and Douai (17th-18th centuries)

Gwendoline de Mûelenaere - University of Louvain, Belgium

The Illustrated Printed Page as a Tool for Thinking and Transmitting Knowledge. The Case of Renaissance Astronomical Books

Isabelle Pantin - École Normale Supérieure de Paris, France

Representing Experience in the Early Royal Society. The Case of Robert Hooke's Micrographia (1665)

Salvatore Ricciardo - University of Bergamo, Italy

Vision on Vision: Early Modern Scientific Images on Cosmology Explored by Means of Second Order Images

Matteo Valleriani - Max Planck Institute for the History of Science - Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Florian Kräutli - Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany

Section 2 - Transformation

Theorizing Technology: Theōria, Diagram, and Artifact in Hero of Alexandria

Courtney Roby - Cornell University, USA

Artistic 'Libido' and Scientific Truth in 16th Century Woodcut Illustrations

Magdalena Bushart - Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Capturing, Modeling, Overviewing and Making Credible: The Functions of Visual at the Accademia del Cimento

Giulia Giannini - Università Statale di Milano, Italy

The Transformations of Physico-Mathematical Visual Thinking: from Descartes to Quantum Physics

Enrico Giannetto - University of Bergamo, Italy

Section 3 - Exploration

Transporting Asian and Australasian Nature to Europe: Photographs from the Voyage of HMS. Challenger 1872-1876

Stephanie Hood - Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany

Visualising Biodata in the Laboratory. Image-makers, Practices and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology

Silvia Casini - The University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Arguing from Appearance: The Numerical Reconstruction of Galactic Tails and Bridges

Matthias Schemmel - Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany

Ethnoscience and Spatial Representations of Climate Change

Elena Bougleux - University of Bergamo, Italy