Article ID: CBB000831401

Vision and Visualization (2008)

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Wade, Nicholas J. (Author)


Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Volume: 17
Pages: 274--294


Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: Special Issue: “Visual Images and Visualization”
Language: English

The art of visual communication is not restricted to the fine arts. Scientists also apply art in communicating their ideas graphically. Diagrams of anatomical structures, like the eye and visual pathways, and figures displaying specific visual phenomena have assisted in the communication of visual ideas for centuries. It is often the case that the development of a discipline can be traced through graphical representations and this is explored here in the context of concepts of visual science. As with any science, vision can be subdivided in a variety of ways. The classification adopted is in terms of optics, anatomy, and visual phenomena; each of these can in turn be further subdivided. Optics can be considered in terms of the nature of light and its transmission through the eye. Understanding of the gross anatomy of the eye and visual pathways was initially dependent upon the skills of the anatomist whereas microanatomy relied to a large extent on the instruments that could resolve cellular detail, allied to the observational skills of the microscopist. Visual phenomena could often be displayed on the printed page, although novel instruments expanded the scope of seeing, particularly in the nineteenth century.

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Description On various ways of visually depicting and communicating the anatomical and other aspects of the sciences of vision.


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Article Ione, Amy (2008) Introduction: Visual Images and Visualization in the Neurosciences. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences (p. 257). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Jorink, Eric
Tramelli, Barbara
Fliethmann, Axel
Weller, Christiane
Zuidervaart, Huib J.
Rijks, Marlise
Concepts
Visual representation; visual communication
Science and art
Anatomy
Scientific illustration
Microscopes
Medicine
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
Renaissance
16th century
Early modern
Places
Netherlands
Great Britain
England
Delft (Netherlands)
London (England)
Sweden
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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