Spontaneous Generations is an online, peer-reviewed academic journal established to provide a platform for interdisciplinary discussion and debate about issues that concern the community of scholars in the history and philosophy of science and related fields. A unique feature of the journal is a Focused Discussion section consisting of short peer-reviewed and invited articles devoted to a particular theme that alternates every issue. The journal also publishes original peer-reviewed research papers, opinions pieces and book-reviews.
Vol 6, No 1 (2012): Visual Representation and Science
Table of Contents
Focused Discussion
| Visual Representation and Science: Editors' Introduction | |
| Ari Gross, Eleanor Louson | 1-7 |
| Thomas Kirke’s Copy of Philosophical Transactions | |
| Sachiko Kusukawa | 8-14 |
| Visual Representation and Science: Visual Figures of the Universe between Antiquity and the Early Thirteenth Century | |
| Barbara Obrist | 15-23 |
| Seeing the Past from Nowhere: Images and Science in Archaeology | |
| Laurent Dissard | 24-33 |
| Trouble with Images in Computational Physics | |
| Matt Spencer | 34-42 |
| “The testimony of my own eyes”: The Strange Case of the Mammal with a Beak | |
| Martin Kemp | 43-49 |
| The Instructive Corpse: Dissection, Anatomical Specimens, and Illustration in Early Nineteenth-Century Medical Education | |
| Cindy Stelmackowich | 50-64 |
| A Matter of Scale: The Visual Representation of Nanotechnologies | |
| Koen Beumer | 65-74 |
| The Colour of Risk: An Exploration of the IPCC’s “Burning Embers” Diagram | |
| Martin Mahony, Mike Hulme | 75-89 |
| “The hidden world of science”: Nature as Art in 1930’s American Print Advertising | |
| Jennifer Tucker | 90-105 |
| Making the Visual Visible in Philosophy of Science | |
| Annamaria Carusi | 106-114 |
| How Much Work Do Scientific Images Do? | |
| Stephen M. Downes | 115-130 |
| Visual Representations of Structure and the Dynamics of Scientific Modeling | |
| William Goodwin | 131-141 |
| Truth-bearers or Truth-makers? | |
| Laura Perini | 142-147 |
| “That small and unsensible shape”: Visual Representations of the Euclidean Point in Sixteenth-Century Print | |
| Michael Jeremy Barany | 148-159 |
| On the Intrinsically Ambiguous Nature of Space-Time Diagrams | |
| Elie During | 160-171 |
| Interpreting Feynman Diagrams as Visual Models | |
| Adrian Wüthrich | 172-181 |
| The Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators 1450–1950: Making the Invisible Hands Visible | |
| Klaus Hentschel | 182-191 |
| Sound and Vision | |
| Edward Jones-Imhotep | 191-202 |
Articles
| On Adaptive Optics: The Historical Constitution of Architectures for Expert Perception in Astronomy | |
| Ian Lowrie | 203-224 |
Opinions
| Flatter than a Pancake: Why Scanning Herbarium Sheets Shouldn't Make Them Disappear | |
| Maura C. Flannery | 225-232 |
| Holdings | |
| Bruce Taylor | 233-236 |
Reviews
| REVIEW: James R. Brown, Laboratory of the Mind | |
| Michael T. Stuart | 237-241 |
| REVIEW: Frederick Grinnell, The Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic | |
| Cory Lewis | 242-244 |
| “Visual Representations in Science”: Review of the 6th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularization: International Workshop, May 19-21 2011, Maó, Menorca, Spain | |
| Ignacio Suay-Matallana, Mar Cuenca-Lorente | 245-251 |
ISSN: 1913-0465