Do Signs Make Logic Colored? Tendencies Around 1900 and Earlier

Ramharter, Esther

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“…Every science needs its inner iconography, a visualization that does not exclusively follow strict scientific derivations, but contains symbols and illustrations of disciplinary identity or a matrix for the specific structure of thought. The influence of the visual on the formation of scientific thought structures has recently received increased attention (Hentschel 2019, 362;Matlin 2022, 279;Ramharter 2019). Many groundbreaking discoveries began with attempts to visualize the invisible in order to create projections for one's imagination to work with.…”

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The poetry of the universe, the periodic table, and the scientific progress: a review of new studies on the periodic table of the elements

Gärditz

2023

Found Chem

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In 1869, two distinguished scientists, Dimitri Mendeleev and Lothar Meyer, discovered a certain periodicity among the chemical characteristics of the then known elements. Both developed first versions of the periodic table, independently. In the wake of the 150th anniversary, UNESCO proclaimed 2019 the “International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements”. Two lucid and detailed studies on the periodic table—accompanied by smaller studies on the occasion of the anniversary—have been published, recently, one of them analysing the scientific history, contributing to the (philosophical) theory of science (Eric Scerri), the other analysing the structures, patterns, and irregularities of the table (Geoff Rayner-Canham). Both studies are profound and vivid examples how scientific progress works. They illustrate that even in hard sciences—mirroring Merton’s concept of middle range theory—the required degree of exactness can remain on an intermediate level, as imperfection allows interpretations which could not (yet) be reached by pure mathematics and logic. Both of these brilliant studies provide valuable material, especially for a social science, to better understand how scientific ideas develop, how the power of visualization helps shape ideas, and how contingency is absorbed by the scientific process.

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The poetry of the universe, the periodic table, and the scientific progress: a review of new studies on the periodic table of the elements

Gärditz

2023

Found Chem

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Circulation of Coronavirus Images: Helping Social Distancing?

Bock von Wülfingen

2023

Ber Wissenschaftsgesch

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As soon as the SARS‐Cov2 disease was recognized by experts to potentially cause a serious pandemic, a three dimensional diagrammatic image of the virus, colored in strong red, conquered public media globally. This study confronts this iconic virus image with a historic image analysis of 33,000 biomedical articles on coronaviruses published between 1968–2020 and interviews with some of their authors. Only a small fraction of scientific virus publications entail images of the complete virus. Red as an alarm color is not used at all by scientists who don't aim for a non‐scientific public. Circulation in this case concerns the movement of iconic images from a scientific context into a general public. On the basis of hps‐studies on scientific diagrams and especially on color use in scientific diagrams to convey specific messages in public, the paper discusses the role of the claim of public corona‐virus diagram as “scientific. ”It points at relevant differences between most frequent scientific corona‐virus images and the diagrammatic image used in public. Both author‐ and readerships (in science and public) follow contrasting aims and values. Thus, the images meet non‐expert readers for whom the images entail very different – and potentially unintended – meanings then to virus experts.

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Do Signs Make Logic Colored? Tendencies Around 1900 and Earlier

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The poetry of the universe, the periodic table, and the scientific progress: a review of new studies on the periodic table of the elements

The poetry of the universe, the periodic table, and the scientific progress: a review of new studies on the periodic table of the elements

Circulation of Coronavirus Images: Helping Social Distancing?

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