The Culture of Diagram is 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.-publisher description.
This book defines diagrams as tools manipulated by users to produce new kinds of understanding and demonstrates that a modern diagrammatic knowledge emerged in eighteenth-century visual culture to become the foundation of later nineteenth-century science.
Buffon and Daubenton's two horses -- Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's strawberry plant -- Diderot's word machine -- Delille's little encyclopedia -- Mercier's unframed Paris -- Description in revolution -- Conclusion : virtual encyclopedias.
"A new reading and translation, the first into English since the eighteenth-century, of Diderot's Letter on the Blind for Use by theSighted"--Provided by publisher.
A new reading and translation, the first into English since the eighteenth-century, of Diderot's Letter on the Blind for Use by the Sighted"--Provided by publisher
"A new reading and translation, the first into English since the eighteenth-century, of Diderot's Letter on the Blind for Use by the Sighted"--Résumé de l'éditeur.
"A new reading and translation, the first into English since the eighteenth-century, of Diderot's Letter on the Blind for Use by the Sighted"--Provided by publisher.
"A new reading and translation, the first into English since the eighteenth-century, of Diderot's Letter on the Blind for Use by the Sighted"--Provided by publisher
Cicero -- Ovid -- Rousseau -- Diderot -- Sartre.
