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Models - The Third Dimension of Science (Hardcover, Revised)
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Models - The Third Dimension of Science (Hardcover, Revised)
Series: Writing Science
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Now that '3-D models' are so often digital displays on flat
screens, it is timely to look back at the solid models that were
once the third dimension of science. This book is about wooden
ships and plastic molecules, wax bodies and a perspex economy,
monuments in cork and mathematics in plaster, casts of diseases,
habitat dioramas, and extinct monsters rebuilt in bricks and
mortar. These remarkable artefacts were fixtures of laboratories
and lecture halls, studios and workshops, dockyards and museums.
Considering such objects together for the first time, this
interdisciplinary volume demonstrates how, in research as well as
in teaching, 3-D models played major roles in making knowledge.
Accessible and original chapters by leading scholars highlight the
special properties of models, explore the interplay between
representation in two dimensions and three, and investigate the
shift to modelling with computers. The book is fascinating reading
for anyone interested in the sciences, medicine, and technology,
and in collections and museums.
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