Bettina Bock von Wülfingen
Bettina Bock von Wülfingen
As soon as the SARS-Cov2 disease was recognized by experts to potentially cause a serious pandemic, a three dimensional diagrammatic image of the virus, colored in strong red, conquered public media globally. This study confronts this iconi...
Katharina Steiner,Lukas Engelmann
Katharina Steiner
This special issue looks at some of the ways that images are adopted, co-opted, and adapted in the life sciences and beyond. It brings together papers that investigate the role of visualization in scientific knowledge-production with contri...
Commentary: Visual Cultures, Publication Technologies, and Legitimation in the Life Sciences [0.03%]
评论：视觉文化、出版技术及生命科学中的正当性问题
Lynn K Nyhart
Lynn K Nyhart
This paper comments on five articles in the special issue "Circulating Images in the Life Sciences." It sees the papers as unified by two themes. The first is their attention to the processes of legitimation. The second is the embedding of ...
Measuring and Manipulating the Rhine River Branches: Interactions of Theory and Embodied Understanding in Eighteenth Century River Hydraulics [0.03%]
十八世纪莱茵河河道测量与分流操纵：理论和实践知识在河流水力学中的互动与发展
Maarten G Kleinhans
Maarten G Kleinhans
Eighteenth century river hydraulics used both theory and measurement to address problems of flood safety, navigation and defense related to the rivers. In the late eighteenth century the Dutch overseer of the rivers, Christiaan Brunings, in...
"Conducted Properly, Published Incorrectly": The Evolving Status of Gel Electrophoresis Images Along Instrumental Transformations in Times of Reproducibility Crisis [0.03%]
“操作正确，发布错误”：胶体电泳图像在其可重复性危机时代随着仪器转换而演变的状态
Nephtali Callaerts,Alexandre Hocquet,Frédéric Wieber
Nephtali Callaerts
For the last ten years, within molecular life sciences, the reproducibility crisis discourse has been embodied as a crisis of trust in scientific images. Beyond the contentious perception of "questionable research practices" associated with...
Samantha Muka
Samantha Muka
In 1961, Lee Chin Eng jumpstarted the reef hobby, a hobby dedicated to the modeling of coral reefs in captivity, with an article in Tropical Fish Hobbyist. He illustrated the article with eight photographs; these images were meaningful to t...
Shaping Public Perception: Polish Illustrated Press and the Image of Polish Naturalists Working in Latin America, 1844-1885 [0.03%]
形塑公众认知：1844—1885年波兰插图报刊中的拉美波兰博物学家形象
Aleksandra Kaye
Aleksandra Kaye
This article will investigate the ways in which Polish illustrated press contributed to communicating and reporting the work of Polish émigré naturalists working in Latin America to the Polish general public living in the Prussian, Russia...
Visualizing Pollution: Representations of Biological Data in Water Pollution Control in the United States, 1948-1962 [0.03%]
透视污染：美国水污染防治中的生物数据表示（1948—1962）
Ryan Hearty
Ryan Hearty
After the United States Congress passed the Water Pollution Control Act of 1948, biologists played an increasingly significant role in scientific studies of water pollution. Biologists interacted with other experts, notably engineers, who m...
Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez
Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez
Asia, America, and Europe have been intellectually intertwined for centuries. Several studies have been published revealing European scholars' interest in the "exotic" languages of Asia and America, as well as in ethnographic and anthropolo...
From Cosmopolitan to Vernacular in the Language Sciences: A Global History Perspective [0.03%]
从世界语到地方语：语言科学的全球历史视角
Michiel Leezenberg
Michiel Leezenberg
Sheldon Pollock's justly famous work on cosmopolitan orders and processes of vernacularization in the worlds of Latinity and Sanskrit invites questions of a comparative and global-historical character. I will raise such questions in the con...