The Educated Eye: Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences

By Michael R. Dietrich

The Educated Eye: Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences
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"A study of visual culture in the teaching of the life sciences The creation and processing of visual representations in the life sciences is a critical but often overlooked aspect of scientific pedagogy. The Educated Eye follows the nineteenth-century embrace of the visible in new spectatoria, or demonstration halls, through the twentieth-century cinematic explorations of microscopic realms and simulations of surgery in virtual reality. With essays on Doc Edgerton's stroboscopic techniques that froze time and Eames's visualization of scale in Powers of Ten, among others, contributors ask how weare taught to see the unseen."--Project Muse.

Book Details

  • Country: US
  • Published: 2012
  • Publisher: UPNE
  • Language: English
  • Pages: 318
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