Odile jacob nov 1998 (2 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Mad cow' disease, genetically modifI'd vegetables, water with nitrates, eggs with salmonella, cheese with listeria. To what extent can our fears in relation to what we eat be justifI'd Are the dangers of eating contaminated food greater today than they were in the past This book attempts to help us unravel our legitimate fears from imagined ones.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - It was during the Renaissance that images and pictures were first used by anatomists, microscopists, and astronomers as scientific tools. In that era, scientific images served as a kI'd of inventory of the known world. In the 19th century, the popularization of scientific ideas gave science a new vigor. Photographic images gave science a new reality, explaining and legitimizing scientific concepts--movement, for example--to a fascinated public. In our days, the scientific image is often a construction--helping us to represent objects and ideas that, like fractals or black holes, cannot be defined through actual observation.Monique Sicard is Projects Director at CNRS Images Média. She specializes in the history of the scientific image during the 19th and 20th centuries.…