How to See a Diagram: A Visual Anthropology of Chemical Affinity
@article{Eddy2014HowTS,
title={How to See a Diagram: A Visual Anthropology of Chemical Affinity},
author={M. Eddy},
journal={Osiris},
year={2014},
volume={29},
pages={178 - 196}
}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. These visualizations were not complex. They were, in fact, simple. One of them, reproduced in this essay, was a single “X,” a chiasm. Black used it to illustrate ratios of chemical attraction. This diagram is particularly important for the history… Expand
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