Culture of Diagram

Name: Culture of Diagram
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ISBN: 9780804745055

ISBN-10: 0804745056

ISBN-13: 9780804745055

Edition: 2010

Authors: John Bender, Michael Marrinan

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The Culture of Diagramis about visual thinking. Exploring a terrain where words meet pictures and formulas meet figures, the book foregrounds diagrams as tools for blurring those boundaries to focus on the production of knowledge as process. It outlines a history of convergence among diverse streams of data in real-time: from eighteenth-century print media and the diagrammatic procedures in the pages of Diderot'sEncyclopediato the paintings of Jacques-Louis David and mathematical devices that reveal the unseen worlds of quantum physics. Central to the story is the process of correlation, which invites observers to participate by eliciting leaps of imagination to fill gaps in data,…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 1/20/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 8.94" wide x 10.00" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English