Visual Cultures in Science and Technology: A Comparative HistoryThis book aims to provide a synthesis of the history, generation, use, and transfer of images in scientific practice. It delves into the rich reservoir of case studies on visual representations in scientific and technological practice that have accumulated over the past couple of decades by historians, sociologists, and philosophers of science. The main aim is thus located on the meta level. It adopts an integrative view of recurrently noted general