POPULARIZING SCIENCE

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Foreword viii
4. INTRODUCTION The Image —A Cultural Technology: A Research Program for a Critical Analysis of Images 1
5. Discourses about Pictures: Considerations on the Particular Challenges Natural-Scientific Pictures Pose for the Theory of the Picture 8
6. COMPARING IMAGES 14
7. A History of Styles of Technical Imagery: Between Description and Interpretation A Conversation with Horst Bredekamp 18
8. ICONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS 32
9. Beyond the Icons of Knowledge: Artistic Styles and the Art History of Scientific Imagery 36
10. Interacting with Images— Toward a History of the Digital Image: The Case of Graphical User Interfaces 48
11. DIGITAL IMAGES 58
12. Pictorial Tradition and Difference— Visual Knowledge Acquisition in Science: The Case of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy 62
13. CHAINS OF REPRESENTATIONS 70
14. Thinking with Models: On the Genesis of James Watson’s Molecular Biology of the Gene 74
15. ARRANGING IMAGES AS TABLEAUX 81
16. Technological Image Series: The Project “Technik im Bild” at the Deutsches Museum, Munich 86
17. OBSERVATION TECHNIQUES 98
18. In the Eye of the Beholder: Emanuel Goldberg’s Apparatuses at the International Photographic Exhibition Dresden 1909 102
19. OBJECTIVITY AND EVIDENCE 112
20. X-Ray Vision and Shadow Image: On the Specificity of Early Radiographs and Their Interpretations around 1900 116
21. VISUALITY, VISUALIZING, IMAGING 126
22. Instrument-Aided Vision and the Imagination: The Migration of Worms and Dragons in Early Microscopy* 130
23. IMAGE NOISE 138
24. Programmed Images: Systems of Notation in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Weaving 142
25. DIAGRAMMATICS 152
26. Early Modern Images of Musical Automata: On Athanasius Kircher’s Trompe-l’Oreille Contemplations in the Quirinal Gardens in Rome 157
27. POPULARIZING SCIENCE 166
28. Drawing and the Contemplation of Nature— Natural History around 1600: The Case of Aldrovandi’s Images 170
29. BIBLIOGRAPHY 182
30. THE AUTHORS 193
31. INDEX 195