History of Embryology: Visualizations Through Series and Animation

Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapter

Authors

Embryological questions about the origins of life and the nature of becoming are among the most profound questions that human beings have asked, in all cultures and across the millennia. The history of embryological thinking encompasses the long history of religions, philosophies, and cultures, yet the history of the science of embryology first emerged in eighteenth-century Europe. This scientific discipline was founded on the observation that living organisms do not simply exist once and for all but come into being and continue to change throughout their lives.Becoming is a process whose fleeting essence permanently eludes observation and representation. It only becomes an object of scientific inquiry to the extent that it is analyzable, measurable, and depictable. Understanding development and fixing it in the image is a cognitive and perceptual struggle for the ephemeral “in between,” the “not yet” or “no longer” of a process that is regarded as continuous – so as to make that which has just ended, that which proceeds apace or begins anew comprehensible, graphic, and intelligible both in and with the image.This chapter relates the history of embryology – by way of its central milestones and from its beginnings in the eighteenth century through to modern developmental embryology – as a story of seeing, of media and techniques of visualization and forms of representation, but also as a story of preparing and experimenting with model organisms.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences
EditorsDavid McCallum
Number of pages32
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Publication date27.08.2022
Pages259-290
ISBN (print)978-981-15-4106-3
ISBN (electronic)978-981-15-4106-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27.08.2022

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022. All rights reserved.

Recently viewed

Publications

  1. An Exploration of humans‘ ability to recognize emotions displayed by robots
  2. The importance of understanding the multiple dimensions of power in stakeholder participation for effective biodiversity conservation
  3. An idea and a person whose time had come
  4. A review on the use of calcium chloride in applied thermal engineering
  5. Differential Steering System for Vehicular Yaw Tracking Motion with Help of Sliding Mode Control
  6. From deforestation to blossom
  7. On walks in molecular graphs.
  8. Balanced Scorecard implementations – The case of a city hall
  9. Eye-tracking methodology in mathematics education research
  10. Effectiveness of error management training
  11. Instructional animation versus static pictures
  12. Modelling scenarios to identify a combined sediment-water management strategy for the large reservoirs of the Tuyamuyun hydro-complex
  13. Calendar
  14. Efficient control of formation flying spacecraft
  15. How students’ self-control and smartphone-use explain their academic performance
  16. Is Calluna vulgaris a suitable bio-monitor of management-mediated nutrient pools in heathland ecosystems?
  17. Risk management with management control systems
  18. Shared mobility business models
  19. A group-level theory of helping and altruism within and across group boundaries
  20. Integrated assessment of bioelectricity technology options
  21. Towards a Real-world Laboratory
  22. Does participatory governance help address long-term environmental problems?
  23. Understanding Environmental Posts
  24. Learning pragmatic routines during study abroad
  25. Kafka pfeift auf den Ursprung des Kunstwerkes.
  26. Using LLMs in sensory service research
  27. New incremental methods for springback compensation by stress superposition
  28. Exploring the Use of the Pronoun I in German Academic Texts with Machine Learning
  29. Public Value
  30. European and national law in history and future
  31. Transformation archetypes in global food systems
  32. LiteraturGesellschaft DDR
  33. Emotional reactivity and interoceptive sensitivity
  34. BERT for stock market sentiment analysis
  35. Foraging loads of stingless bees and utilisation of stored nectar for pollen harvesting
  36. Bestimmbare Unbestimmtheiten
  37. Different ways lead to ambidexterity
  38. Approaching bolt load retention behaviour of AS41 through compliance and creep deformation
  39. Web-based occupational stress prevention in German micro- and small-sized enterprises – process evaluation results of an implementation study