Visual Art In Scientific Representation

Science and art are important ways of representing and understanding the world,and there is an inseparable relationship between them.How to define scientific representation is an important problem in western philosophy of science.Roughly,scientific representation can be understood as describing a thing(the target)by means of another thing(a model)to which the former is similar/or isomorphic.Firstly,this study summarizes the basic theory of scientific representation from the aspects of its composition,demarcation,and standardization.Starting with the discussion of representation in art,based on Goodman’s classic "representation view",this paper examines the representational features of Renaissance pictorial art.Secondly,we analyze the representational features of Renaissance anatomical illustrations.Anatomy aims to accurately describe the visual and structural aspects of the human body;thus,anatomical illustrations are a typical case of scientific representation.Pictorial representation is a topic of common concern for science and art.By analyzing the anatomical illustrations in relation to the pictorial techniques of the Renaissance,this study shows how the scientific revolution in anatomy during the Renaissance was underpinned by a corresponding revolution of visual language.In addition we analyze the influence of the new representational techniques on the characteristics on the style and accuracy of scientific representation.Finally,this study will try to supplement and improve extant accounts of scientific representation,provide a general definition of representation style that takes into account the intersection of artistic and scientific features.This amounts to a solution to the problems of style and accuracy in scientific representation.