The Semiotic Challenge of Scientific Images. A Test Case for Visual Meaning

This book is intended to answer the question "What role and impact do images have in scientific research?". In these pages, scientific images are explored as experimental devices (in laboratories), as instruments of proof (in mathematical logic), as argumentation (in dissemination literature), and in their interactions with other fields, like art and aesthetics. Epistemologists and language scientists will find methodologies that can be used to study the relation between images and knowledge; and scientific imaging experts will find their visualization practices being questioned in all their unique aspects.