The American Journal of Semiotics

Volume 25, Issue 3/4, 2009

Maria Giulia Dondero
Pages 1-19

The Semiotics of Scientific Image
from Production to Manipulation

This study will mainly investigate a semiotic theory of the production and functions of visualisation and image in scientific literature, especially concerning observational astrophysics, as well as theoretical physics, and will also mention the physiology of movement dealing with chronophotography.