Synopsis "Scientific Visual Representations in History"
ForewordMatteo 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
