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The Educated Eye: Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences

By Michael R. Dietrich , Nancy Anderson

Book information

Publisher
Dartmouth
Year
2012
ISBN
1611680433, 9781611680430
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2205412 bytes)
Series
Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture
Pages
328\329
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-09-02 19:08:03
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Description

The creation and processing of visual representations in the life sciences is a critical but often overlooked aspect of scientific pedagogy. The Educated Eye follows the nineteenth-century embrace of the visible in new spectatoria, or demonstration halls, through the twentieth-century cinematic explorations of microscopic realms and simulations of surgery in virtual reality. With essays on Doc Edgerton’s stroboscopic techniques that froze time and Eames’s visualization of scale in Powers of Ten, among others, contributors ask how we are taught to see the unseen.

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