UID:
edocfu_9959114118302883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9783110605211
Content:
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.
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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TABLE OF CONTENTS --
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Editorial --
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COLOR AND ITS MEANING FOR THE SCIENCES --
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Color in Medical Images /
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Color as the Other? Absence and Reappearance of Chromophobia in Eighteenth-Century France /
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Research on Color Matters: Towards a Modern Archaeology of Ancient Polychromies /
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Do Signs Make Logic Colored? Tendencies Around 1900 and Earlier /
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Coloring the Fourth Dimension? Coloring Polytopes and Complex Curves at the End of the Nineteenth Century /
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Encoding Color: Between Perception and Signal /
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MEANINGFUL COLORS IN THE SCIENCES --
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Green Is Refreshing: Techniques, Technologies and Epistemologies of Nineteenth-Century Color Therapies /
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Pigments, Natural History and Primary Qualities: How Orange Became a Color /
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An Evaluation of Color Maps for Visual Data Exploration /
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The Use of Color in Geographic Maps /
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Historical and Scientific Note of Color Duplex Doppler Ultrasound and Imaging /
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Diagrammatic Traditions: Color in Metabolic Maps /
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Pink and Blue Science. A Gender History of Color in Psychology /
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Image Credits --
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Authors
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110604689
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110605211
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110605211
