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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PALEONTOLOGICAL ART
A scientific discipline cannot exist without a written and visual language; therefore, if we “want to understand what draws things together,” we must investigate “what draws things together” (Latour, 1990, p. 60). The visual language of geology— and its subdiscipline, paleontology—helped establish an optical consistency, or standardized visual representation, for the science (Rudwick, 1976, 1992). ...