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🧵 "Images as Social Agents and Historical Ledgers in Knowledge Systems"
Today's SFI Seminar by @JSMF Fellow @onuhgrrarrow (@ASU) on how the co-evolution of images and concepts has shaped human knowledge about biological entities like cells & biofilms ðŸ¦
Today's SFI Seminar by @JSMF Fellow @onuhgrrarrow (@ASU) on how the co-evolution of images and concepts has shaped human knowledge about biological entities like cells & biofilms ðŸ¦
"Scientific images are inseparable from the complex knowledge systems in which they emerge...images are intermediaries between researchers and their concepts."
- @onuhgrrarrow (@ASU), streaming now:
- @onuhgrrarrow (@ASU), streaming now:
"In the late 19th Century, the first biology textbooks were getting published. In them, all the images of cells were of *specific* cells. A little later the pictures are of slightly diagrammatic cells. Finally, fully diagrammatic."
- @onuhgrrarrow (@ASU):
- @onuhgrrarrow (@ASU):
