Images and pictures... have played a key role in shaping our scientific picture of the world.... Carefully constructed families of pictures can act as a calculus all their own. Like any successful systems of symbols, with an appropriate grammar they enlarge the number of things that we can do without consciously thinking.


Introduction - Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science (2008)


Images and pictures... have played a key role in shaping our scientific picture of the world.... Carefully constructed families of pictures can act...

Images and pictures... have played a key role in shaping our scientific picture of the world.... Carefully constructed families of pictures can act...

Images and pictures... have played a key role in shaping our scientific picture of the world.... Carefully constructed families of pictures can act...

Images and pictures... have played a key role in shaping our scientific picture of the world.... Carefully constructed families of pictures can act...