Science in color : visualizing achromatic knowledge / Bettina Bock von Wülfingen (ed.).

Contributor(s):

Bock von Wülfingen, Bettina [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berlin : De Gruyter, c2019.Description: 238 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts, facsimiles, maps, portrait ; 23 cmISBN:

9783110604689

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

152.145 SCI

Contents:

COLOR AND ITS MEANING FOR THE SCIENCES -- Color in Medical Images / Badano, Aldo -- Color as the Other? Absence and Reappearance of Chromophobia in Eighteenth-Century France / Boskamp, Ulrike -- Research on Color Matters: Towards a Modern Archaeology of Ancient Polychromies / Nagel, Alexander -- Do Signs Make Logic Colored? Tendencies Around 1900 and Earlier / Ramharter, Esther -- Coloring the Fourth Dimension? Coloring Polytopes and Complex Curves at the End of the Nineteenth Century / Friedman, Michael -- Encoding Color: Between Perception and Signal / Cedeño Montaña, Ricardo -- MEANINGFUL COLORS IN THE SCIENCES -- Green Is Refreshing: Techniques, Technologies and Epistemologies of Nineteenth-Century Color Therapies / Rossi, Michael -- Pigments, Natural History and Primary Qualities: How Orange Became a Color / Lawson, Ian -- An Evaluation of Color Maps for Visual Data Exploration / Baum, Daniel -- The Use of Color in Geographic Maps / Moser, Jana / Meyer, Philipp -- Historical and Scientific Note of Color Duplex Doppler Ultrasound and Imaging / Moreau, Jean-François / Pisano, Raffaele / Correas, Jean-Michel -- Diagrammatic Traditions: Color in Metabolic Maps / Wülfingen, Bettina Bock von -- Pink and Blue Science. A Gender History of Color in Psychology / Grisard, Dominique -- Image Credits --.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	152.145 SCI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K2752

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Includes bibliographical references.

COLOR AND ITS MEANING FOR THE SCIENCES --
Color in Medical Images / Badano, Aldo --
Color as the Other? Absence and Reappearance of Chromophobia in Eighteenth-Century France / Boskamp, Ulrike --
Research on Color Matters: Towards a Modern Archaeology of Ancient Polychromies / Nagel, Alexander --
Do Signs Make Logic Colored? Tendencies Around 1900 and Earlier / Ramharter, Esther --
Coloring the Fourth Dimension? Coloring Polytopes and Complex Curves at the End of the Nineteenth Century / Friedman, Michael --
Encoding Color: Between Perception and Signal / Cedeño Montaña, Ricardo --
MEANINGFUL COLORS IN THE SCIENCES --
Green Is Refreshing: Techniques, Technologies and Epistemologies of Nineteenth-Century Color Therapies / Rossi, Michael --
Pigments, Natural History and Primary Qualities: How Orange Became a Color / Lawson, Ian --
An Evaluation of Color Maps for Visual Data Exploration / Baum, Daniel --
The Use of Color in Geographic Maps / Moser, Jana / Meyer, Philipp --
Historical and Scientific Note of Color Duplex Doppler Ultrasound and Imaging / Moreau, Jean-François / Pisano, Raffaele / Correas, Jean-Michel --
Diagrammatic Traditions: Color in Metabolic Maps / Wülfingen, Bettina Bock von --
Pink and Blue Science. A Gender History of Color in Psychology / Grisard, Dominique --
Image Credits --.

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.

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