The Culture of Diagram
Author | : John Bender |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 603 |
Release | : 2010-01-20 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780804745055 |
ISBN-13 | : 0804745056 |
Rating | : 4/5 (056 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Culture of Diagram written by John Bender and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-20 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.