Prior to his current full professorship in the history of science and technology at the University of Stuttgart, Klaus Hentschel was a Lecturer/Researcher at the Universities of Berlin, Göttingen and Berne, a Fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science & Technology at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts 1996/97 and Ernst Cassirer Guest Professor at the University of Hamburg 2003.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Historiographic layers of visual science cultures ; 3. Formation of visual science cultures ; 4. Pioneers of visual science cultures ; 5. Transfer of visual techniques ; 6. Support by illustrators and image technicians ; 7. One image rarely comes alone ; 8. Practical training in visual skills ; 9. Mastery of pattern recognition ; 10. Visual thinking in scientic and technological practice ; 11. Recurrent color taxonomies ; 12. Aesthetic fascination as a visual culture's binding glue ; 13. Issues of visual perception ; 14. Visuality through and through

This fine work is a survey of the history, use, and function of the image in the practice of science. ... The book is very readable, amply illustrated, and carefully documented; the biography alone exceeds 80 pages. Highly recommended.

Prior to his current full professorship in the history of science and technology at the University of Stuttgart, Klaus Hentschel was a Lecturer/Researcher at the Universities of Berlin, Göttingen and Berne, a Fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science & Technology at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts 1996/97 and Ernst Cassirer Guest Professor at the University of Hamburg 2003.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Historiographic layers of visual science cultures ; 3. Formation of visual science cultures ; 4. Pioneers of visual science cultures ; 5. Transfer of visual techniques ; 6. Support by illustrators and image technicians ; 7. One image rarely comes alone ; 8. Practical training in visual skills ; 9. Mastery of pattern recognition ; 10. Visual thinking in scientic and technological practice ; 11. Recurrent color taxonomies ; 12. Aesthetic fascination as a visual culture's binding glue ; 13. Issues of visual perception ; 14. Visuality through and through

This fine work is a survey of the history, use, and function of the image in the practice of science. ... The book is very readable, amply illustrated, and carefully documented; the biography alone exceeds 80 pages. Highly recommended.

Prior to his current full professorship in the history of science and technology at the University of Stuttgart, Klaus Hentschel was a Lecturer/Researcher at the Universities of Berlin, Göttingen and Berne, a Fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science & Technology at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts 1996/97 and Ernst Cassirer Guest Professor at the University of Hamburg 2003.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Historiographic layers of visual science cultures ; 3. Formation of visual science cultures ; 4. Pioneers of visual science cultures ; 5. Transfer of visual techniques ; 6. Support by illustrators and image technicians ; 7. One image rarely comes alone ; 8. Practical training in visual skills ; 9. Mastery of pattern recognition ; 10. Visual thinking in scientic and technological practice ; 11. Recurrent color taxonomies ; 12. Aesthetic fascination as a visual culture's binding glue ; 13. Issues of visual perception ; 14. Visuality through and through

This fine work is a survey of the history, use, and function of the image in the practice of science. ... The book is very readable, amply illustrated, and carefully documented; the biography alone exceeds 80 pages. Highly recommended.