Encoding Color: Between Perception and Signal

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS 5
3. Editorial 9
4. COLOR AND ITS MEANING FOR THE SCIENCES
5. Color in Medical Images 19
6. Color as the Other? Absence and Reappearance of Chromophobia in Eighteenth-Century France 33
7. Research on Color Matters: Towards a Modern Archaeology of Ancient Polychromies 51
8. Do Signs Make Logic Colored? Tendencies Around 1900 and Earlier 65
9. Coloring the Fourth Dimension? Coloring Polytopes and Complex Curves at the End of the Nineteenth Century 81
10. Encoding Color: Between Perception and Signal 99
11. MEANINGFUL COLORS IN THE SCIENCES
12. Green Is Refreshing: Techniques, Technologies and Epistemologies of Nineteenth-Century Color Therapies 117
13. Pigments, Natural History and Primary Qualities: How Orange Became a Color 133
14. An Evaluation of Color Maps for Visual Data Exploration 147
15. The Use of Color in Geographic Maps 163
16. Historical and Scientific Note of Color Duplex Doppler Ultrasound and Imaging 181
17. Diagrammatic Traditions: Color in Metabolic Maps 195
18. Pink and Blue Science. A Gender History of Color in Psychology 219
19. Image Credits 237
20. Authors 239