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- catalog abstract ""Examines the efforts of scholars and science aficionados alike to conceive, document, describe, classify, order, and analyze natural phenomena with the aid of illustrations as varied as their interests and methods. Author Harry Robin has assembled scores of intriguing images, including an ancient Chinese pulse chart; stroboscopic photographs, PET scans, and computer graphics, a detailed rendering of fossil layers in a mountain sliced by glacial erosion, astronomical drawings from the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh, and diagrams of sixteenth-century methods for treating crossed eyes and an injured spine. Each illustration is accompanied by an insightful, accessible commentary, in which Robin explains the image and its context."".
- catalog contributor b3959279.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description ""Examines the efforts of scholars and science aficionados alike to conceive, document, describe, classify, order, and analyze natural phenomena with the aid of illustrations as varied as their interests and methods. Author Harry Robin has assembled scores of intriguing images, including an ancient Chinese pulse chart; stroboscopic photographs, PET scans, and computer graphics, a detailed rendering of fossil layers in a mountain sliced by glacial erosion, astronomical drawings from the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh, and diagrams of sixteenth-century methods for treating crossed eyes and an injured spine. Each illustration is accompanied by an insightful, accessible commentary, in which Robin explains the image and its context."".
- catalog description "Historical foreword / by Daniel J. Kevles -- Observation -- Induction -- Methodology -- Self-illustrating phenomena -- Classification -- Conceptualization.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "239 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0810938235".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : H.N. Abrams,".
- catalog subject "502/.22 20".
- catalog subject "Imagination.".
- catalog subject "Q222 .R63 1992".
- catalog subject "Science Graphic methods.".
- catalog subject "Scientific illustration.".
- catalog subject "Visualization.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Historical foreword / by Daniel J. Kevles -- Observation -- Induction -- Methodology -- Self-illustrating phenomena -- Classification -- Conceptualization.".
- catalog title "The scientific image : from cave to computer / Harry Robin ; historical foreword by Daniel J. Kevles.".
- catalog type "text".