How to See a Diagram: A Visual Anthropology of Chemical Affinity
(2014)
Journal Article
Eddy, M. D. (2014). How to See a Diagram: A Visual Anthropology of Chemical Affinity. Osiris, 29(1), 178-196. https://doi.org/10.1086/678093
In 1766, Thomas Cochrane entered the Edinburgh classroom of Joseph Black (1728–99) to learn chemistry for the first time. Cochrane was studying medicine, and, like so many of Black’s students, he dutifully recorded several diagrams in his notebooks.... Read More about How to See a Diagram: A Visual Anthropology of Chemical Affinity.