Seeing Science offers an insightful and reader-friendly collection
of essays and pictures about photography's role in visualizing
science and building human knowledge-from micro to macro levels and
everything in between. Photography and science have long been
intertwined, helping to shape the way we look at the world.
Scientists use photography as a way to gather information, explore,
and learn, but just as important, photography is also used to
promote scientific advances and has long served as an interface
between the sciences and the public. Our understanding of outer
space depends on images sent to Earth from the Hubble Space
Telescope, just as our understanding of our own bodies depends on
X-rays. Images make visible what lies beyond human perception.
Science is less an edifice of facts than a process of discovery and
inquiry. In this way, it is not dissimilar to art; artists have
engaged with some of the same scientific principles, using
photography to imagine the world differently and present us with
new experiences and ways of seeing. This volume presents both
perspectives exploring how science is made perceptible, featuring
over three hundred images and sixty short texts. Together they
engage readers in a timely exploration of the extent to which our
knowledge is formed and transformed through our interactions with
photographic imagery.
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