Klaus Hentschel

Gebundenes Buch

Visual Cultures in Science and Technology

A Comparative History

Beschreibung

What makes a good scientific image? Is science defined by its pictures? The present book offers a broad comparative survey of the history, generation, use and function of images in scientific practice based on an extensive range of historical sources in the natural sciences, technology and medicine, particularly physics, astronomy, and chemistry.

Autor

Prior to his current full professorship in the history of science and technology at the University of Stuttgart, Klaus Hentschel was a Lecturer/Researcher at the Universities of Berlin, Göttingen and Berne, a Fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science & Technology at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts 1996/97 and Ernst Cassirer Guest Professor at the University of Hamburg 2003.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 173mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1225g
• ISBN-13: 9780198717874
• ISBN-10: 0198717873
• Artikelnr.: 47870178