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bookArnold Pacey

Meaning in Technology

Is visual thinking the origin of technological complexity, or as Pursell argues, is the development of craft culture responsible for complex changes in designs?

simulated movement of a cylinder in an automotive, internal combustion engine.


Chapter 2, Visual Thinking

 

visualizing the world into existence -- is that a scientific occupational hazard?

Studies of renowned scientists in 1950s revealed that they

"depended on visual imagery more than words." to describe nature

p. 39

Nature's geometry

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Visual learning


Meaning in Technology, 2001
book cover
Arnold Pacey
Table of contents
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1. Music, Sources of Technology

2. Visual Thinking

3. Meaning in the Hands

4. Social Meanings

5. The Sense of Place

6. Exploration, Invention and the Remaking of Nature

7. Gender and Creativity

8. Knowledge Pregnant with Evil

9. People Centered Technology


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