کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1161976 1490532 2011 13 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Life lines: An art history of biological research around 1800
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک (عمومی)
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Life lines: An art history of biological research around 1800
چکیده انگلیسی

Around 1800, the scientific “illustrator” emerged as a new artistic profession in Europe. Artists were increasingly sought after in order to picture anatomical dissections and microscopic observations and to translate drawings into artworks for books and journals. By training and technical expertise, they introduced a particular kind of knowledge into scientific perception that also shaped the common image of nature. Illustrations of scientific publications, often undervalued as a biased interpretation of facts and subordinate to logic and description, thus convey an ‘art history’ of science in its own right, relevant both for the understanding of biological thought around 1800 as well as for the development of the arts and their historiography. The article is based on an analysis of botanical treatises produced for the Göttingen Society of Sciences in 1803, during an early phase of microscopic cell research, in order to determine the constitutive role of artistic knowledge and the media employed for the visualization and conceptualization of biological issues.


► Problems of German plant physiology around 1800 (before universal cell theory).
► Role of illustrations for the conceptualization of cells as a biological entity.
► Relation of early art history to medical and biological sciences.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - Volume 42, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 368–380
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