Although the history of technological and scientific illustrations is a well-established field in the West, scholarship on the much longer Chinese experience is

Picturing China in the American Press juxtaposes what the ordinary American news reader was shown visually inTime Magazine between 1949 and 1973 with contempora

By showing us the human brain at work, PET (positron emission tomography) scans are subtly--and sometimes not so subtly--transforming how we think about our min

The contributors to this volume examine the historical and philosophical issues concerning the role that scientific illustration plays in the creation of scient