The essays in this book provide an excellent introduction to the
means by which scientists convey their ideas. While diverse in
their subject matter, the essays are unified in asserting that
scientists compose and use particular representations in
contextually organized and contextually sensitive ways, and that
these representations - particularly visual displays such as
graphs, diagrams, photographs, and drawings - depend for their
meaning on the complex activities in which they are situated.The
topics include sociological orientations to representational
practice, representation and the realist-constructivist
controversy, the fixation of evidence, time and documents in
researcher interaction, selection and mathematization in the visual
documentation of objects in the life sciences, the use of
illustrations in texts (E.0. Wilson's Sociobiology, a field guide
to the birds), representing practice in cognitive science, the
iconography of scientific texts, and semiotic analysis of
scientific, representation.The contributors are K. Amann, Ronald
Amerine, Francoise Bastide, Jack Bilmes, K. Knorr, Bruno Latour,
John Law, Michael Lynch, Greg Meyers, Lucy A. Suchman, Paul
Tibbetts, Steve Woolgar, and Steven Yearley.Michael Lynch is
Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Boston
University. Steve Woolgar is at the Centre for Research into
Innovation Culture, and Technology at Brunel University, Uxbridge,
England"
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