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By Bas C. van Fraassen

Bas C. van Fraassen provides an unique exploration of ways we signify the area. technology represents traditional phenomena through theories, in addition to in lots of concrete methods by way of such capacity as photographs, graphs, table-top versions, and machine simulations. medical illustration starts off with an inquiry into the character of illustration regularly, drawing on such diversified assets as Plato's dialogues, the improvement of perspectival drawing in the
Renaissance, and the geometric types of modelling in glossy physics. beginning with Mach's and Poincaré's analyses of dimension and the 'problem of coordination', van Fraassen then offers a view of size results as representations. With recognize to the theories of latest technological know-how he defends an empiricist
structuralist model of the 'picture thought' of technology, via an inquiry into the paradoxes that got here to mild in twentieth-century philosophies of technology. Van Fraassen concludes with an research of the advanced dating among visual appeal and truth within the medical world-picture.

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