La Fabrique du regard [French]

By Monique Sicard

It was during the Renaissance that images and pictures were first used by anatomists, microscopists, and astronomers as scientific tools. In that era, scientific images served as a kI'd of inventory of the known world. In the 19th century, the popularization of scientific ideas gave science a new vigor. Photographic images gave science a new reality, explaining and legitimizing scientific concepts--movement, for example--to a fascinated public. In our days, the scientific image is often a construction--helping us to represent objects and ideas that, like fractals or black holes, cannot be defined through actual observation.Monique Sicard is Projects Director at CNRS Images M dia. She specializes in the history of the scientific image during the 19th and 20th centuries.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2738106544
• ISBN13: 9782738106544
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Odile Jacob
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"