Traces: Generating What Was There

Published by De Gruyter 2017

Traces

Generating What Was There

Edited by: Bettina Bock von Wülfingen

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110535068

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About this book

Traces keep time and make the past visible. As such, they continue to be a fundamental resource for scientific knowledge production in modernity. While the art of trace reading is a millennia-old practice, tracings are specifically produced in the photographic archive or in the scientific laboratory. The material traces of the forms represent the objects and causes to which they owe their existence while making them invisible at the moment of their visualization. By looking at different techniques for the production of traces and their changes over two centuries, the contributions show the continuities they have, both in the laboratories and in large colliders of particle physics. This volume, inspired by Carlo Ginzburg’s early works, formulates a theory of traces for the 21^st century.

Trace production in the sciences
Discusses continuities and differences introduced by digital techniques for the purpose of providing scientific proof, using case studies of two centuries
Over 20 exemplary images

Author / Editor information

Bettina Bock von Wülfingen, Humboldt University of Berlin.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Inhalt Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Editorial Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
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Layers of Operation. Lars Leksell’s Neurosurgical Planning Image Kathrin Friedrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Description, Experiment, and Model. Reading Traces in Paleobiological Research Exemplified by a Morpho-functional Analysis John A. Nyakatura Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
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Visualizing Viruses. Notes on David S. Goodsell’s Scientific Illustrations and Their Use in Molecular Biology between Picture Model and Trace Kathrin M. Amelung and Thomas Stach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Microscopic Imaging. Interference, Intervention, Objectivity Dieter G. Weiss, Günther Jirikowski and Stefanie Reichelt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
“It is not enough, in order to understand the Book of Nature, to turn over the pages looking at the pictures. Painful though it may be, it will be necessary to learn to read the text.” Visual Evidence in the Life Sciences, c. 1960 Soraya de Chadarevian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Giving a Theory a Material Body. Staining Technique and the “Autarchy of the Nucleus” since 1876 Bettina Bock von Wülfingen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Interview
Traces and Patterns. Pictures of Interferences and Collisions in the Physics Lab A Dialogue between Dr. Anne Dippel and Dr. Lukas Mairhofer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Liquid or Globular? On the History of Gestalt-seeing in the Life Sciences of the Early 19th Century Barbara Orland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Traces of Bodies and Operational Portraits. On the Construction of Pictorial Evidence Marietta Kesting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Reduced Complexity or Essentialism? Medical Knowledge and “Reading Traces” in the History of Art Sophia Kunze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Image Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Historians of science, art and cultural scholars, natural scientists, physicians, scholars of science and technology studies
Pages
- Main content: 122
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 30
- Coloured Illustrations: 50
Keywords: trace production; natural science

eBook

Published: July 24, 2017
ISBN: 9783110535068

Paperback

Published: July 24, 2017
ISBN: 9783110534788