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Inducing Visibility and Visual Deduction (2020)

Morgan, Mary S. (Author)

East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Volume: 14
Issue: 2
Pages: 225-252

URI: https://read.dukeupress.edu/easts/article-abstract/14/2/225/164306/Inducing-Visibility-and-Visual-Deduction

DOI: 10.1215/18752160-8538247

Publication Date: 2020
Edition Details: Special Issue: Thinking and Acting with Diagrams
Language: English

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Graphic methods History of science, as a discipline Scientists Visual representation; visual communication Technoscience; science and technology studies Diagrams

Scientists use diagrams not just to visualize objects and relations in their fields, both empirical and theoretical, but to reason with them as tools of their science. While the two dimensional space of diagrams might seem restrictive, scientific diagrams can depict many more than two elements, can be used to visualize the same materials in myriad different ways, and can be constructed in a considerable variety of forms. This article takes up two generic puzzles about 2D visualizations. First, How do scientists in different communities use 2D spaces to depict materials that are not fundamentally spatial? This prompts the distinction between diagrams that operate in different kinds of spaces: real, ideal, and artificial. And second, How do diagrams, in these different usages of 2D space, support various kinds of visual reasoning that cross over between inductive and deductive? The argument links the representational form and content of a diagram (its vocabulary and grammar) with the kinds of inferential and manipulative reasoning that are afforded, and constrained, by scientists’ different usages of 2D space.

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