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Title Science in Color : Visualizing Achromatic Knowlegde / Bettina Bock von Wülfingen
Published Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

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Contents Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Editorial -- COLOR AND ITS MEANING FOR THE SCIENCES -- Color in Medical Images / Badano, Aldo -- Color as the Other? Absence and Reappearance of Chromophobia in Eighteenth-Century France / Boskamp, Ulrike -- Research on Color Matters: Towards a Modern Archaeology of Ancient Polychromies / Nagel, Alexander -- Do Signs Make Logic Colored? Tendencies Around 1900 and Earlier / Ramharter, Esther -- Coloring the Fourth Dimension? Coloring Polytopes and Complex Curves at the End of the Nineteenth Century / Friedman, Michael -- Encoding Color: Between Perception and Signal / Cedeño Montaña, Ricardo -- MEANINGFUL COLORS IN THE SCIENCES -- Green Is Refreshing: Techniques, Technologies and Epistemologies of Nineteenth-Century Color Therapies / Rossi, Michael -- Pigments, Natural History and Primary Qualities: How Orange Became a Color / Lawson, Ian -- An Evaluation of Color Maps for Visual Data Exploration / Baum, Daniel -- The Use of Color in Geographic Maps / Moser, Jana / Meyer, Philipp -- Historical and Scientific Note of Color Duplex Doppler Ultrasound and Imaging / Moreau, Jean-François / Pisano, Raffaele / Correas, Jean-Michel -- Diagrammatic Traditions: Color in Metabolic Maps / Wülfingen, Bettina Bock von -- Pink and Blue Science. A Gender History of Color in Psychology / Grisard, Dominique -- Image Credits -- Authors
Summary Color makes its way into natural science images as early as the research process. It serves for self-reflection and for communication within the scientific community. However, color does not follow a standard in the natural sciences: its meaning is contingent, even though culturally conditioned. Digital publishing enhances the use of color in scientific publications; at the same time, globalization promotes the idea of universal color symbolism. This book investigates the function of color in historical and current visualizations for scientific purposes, its epistemic role as a tool, and its long neglect due to symbolic and gender-specific connotations. The publication thus closes a research gap in the natural sciences and the humanities
Color makes its way into natural science images as early as the research process. It serves for self-reflection and for communication within the scientific community. However, color does not follow a standard in the natural sciences: its meaning is contingent, even though culturally conditioned. Digital publishing enhances the use of color in scientific publications; at the same time, globalization promotes the idea of universal color symbolism. This book investigates the function of color in historical and current visualizations for scientific purposes, its epistemic role as a tool, and its long neglect due to symbolic and gender-specific connotations. The publication thus helps to bridge a long standing research gap in the natural sciences and the humanities
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)
Subject Color.
Visualization.
Science.
Polychromy.
Color
Science
sciences (philosophy)
polychromy.
color (perceived attribute)
science (modern discipline)
ART -- General.
Color
Polychromy
Science
Visualization
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bock von Wülfingen, Bettina, editor
ISBN 9783110605211
311060521X
9783110605204
3110605201