Natural Representation
Diagram and Text in Darwin's On the Origin of Species
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10867167 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heather Brink-Roby (Harvard University Press, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 247-273 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-5222 • E-ISSN: 1527-2052 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/vic.2009.51.2.247 |
| PMID | 19824197 |
| OpenAlex | W2084205314 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
This article examines Darwin's use of diagram and text in the "Origin" by focusing on their interacting roles in his discussion of natural relations, extinction, and time. Each medium presented opportunities and challenges that depend on the topic in question; indeed, a medium's dimensionality could undermine one claim and make self-evident another. While Darwin divides representational labor between diagram and text, he also creates a constitutive interplay between media. The resulting dynamic alliance of form and content recalls his early evolutionary reflections on representation; image and word could be used not simply to argue for, but also as evidence of, his theory
Alliance · Biology · Darwin (ADL · Diagram · Epistemology · Natural (archaeology · Physics · Political science · Representation (politics · Theoretical physics · Australian Indigenous Culture and History · Computer Science · Evolution and Science Education · History · History of Science and Natural History · Paleontology · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2022 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |