Good point about graphs and charts. If the event can reasonably include
things written by machines rather than people then there are plenty of
examples of 'output'.
There's also chromatography which would literally translate as
colour-writing, although most modern chromatography is fairly colourless
and much more high tech than coloured pens + filter paper + solvent. It
might be an urban myth but I've been led to believe that the man,
Mikhail Tsvet, who discovered / invented / popularised chromatography
used 'chroma' because his surname also means colour - he was working
with plant pigments (says Wikipedia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Tsvet#Chromatography).
I once asked a senior biochemist what he had done his PhD on - "on the
backs of envelopes mostly", so I'd like to put in a word for the quick
drawings and illustrations that scientists might draw informally, on
whatever is to hand. Beermats included. I'm sure there's a famous
example relating to DNA somewhere ;) as well as Darwin's tree of life...
Stretching the 'graph' thing a bit, I happened to be on a train this
morning that had one of these
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantograph_(rail)
... apparently named after a drawing device:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantograph
Jo
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From: Dominic McDonald [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Science and Drawing
One obvious link is the use of Graphs in almost all areas of science,
technology, engineering and maths. If my (almost completely
non-existent) Greek is correct, "graph" means "drawing"...
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Subject: [PSCI-COM] Science and Drawing
Hi,
I'm helping to organise a Big Draw event which combines drawing and
Science.
Based on past experience, I think it would be helpful to have some words
which explain the links between Drawing and Science and I am clear that
Drawing has been important in:
Recording and communicating details of new species - eg Darwin
Visually recording and communicating results of experiments
Learning about structures of animals and plants because having to draw
it helps you remember it better
However, the feedback I would like from this list is examples of where
drawing is still being used in Science today.
It may be that people are really using drawing and Science more as art
to decorate walls or diaries etc but I'm hoping someone out there may
have other ideas. There will also be some of you who can get to the
Festival of Science and may see some uses there.
With many varied backgrounds (and hopefully some fairly recent graduates
who can tell me whether they were still drawing in their prac. classes
like I did) I hope you will be able to help.
Thanks
Kerynne Robertson
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