Contemplating the finger: Visuality and the semiotics of chemistry

Hyle

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 3-27

  Weininger, Stephen J ^a,b  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fictional science; Maps; Metaphors; Representation; Semiology; Tables

Indexed keywords

EID: 54649083800     PISSN: 14335158     EISSN: 14335158     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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