Sentence examples for scientific depictions from inspiring English sources

While fanciful medieval maps featured serpents, magical mountains and hybrid creatures, even scientific depictions of the poles, such as Gerard Mercator's 16th-century map of the Arctic, details an infinite northbound place forming a giant whirlpool with a magnetic black rock at its centre, populated by iceberg leviathans and "polar pygmies".

Although it is difficult to trace the historical connections, the methods of surveying and mapping and the instruments described by Alberti are precisely those that were responsible for the new scientific accuracy of the depictions of towns and land areas that date from the late 15th and early 16th centuries.

As a novelist with a background in science myself (a PhD in nuclear physics, since you ask), I find that the depiction of scientific ideas in fiction can often be ham-fisted, superficial or just plain wrong.

Frankenstein's depiction of scientific hubris, Dracula's immigrant vampire, the corrupted masculinity of both Wilde's Dorian Gray and Stevenson's Mr Hyde: each of these iconic grotesques was birthed as an embodiment of prevailing social anxiety.

In her book, "Envisioning Science" (M.I.T. Press, 2002), Ms. Frankel instructed researchers, in words and many pictures, in the kind of visual depiction of scientific processes and subjects she and Dr. Whitesides produced in an earlier book, "On the Surface of Things," (Harvard University Press, 1997).

The depiction of scientific uncertainties and scientific certainty is balanced and both are strongly emphasized (the frequency of each is 92%).

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With the detailed depiction of scientific practice, the levels of criticism and the impact of values based on Longino's theory I tried to show the range of pitfalls which have to be taken into consideration when creating quality criteria for foresight.

Looking at it this way, her drug series, All You Can Feel, nails the line between artistic depiction and scientific analysis, while somehow capturing something of the drug's psychological effect.

We must begin to consider images as more than tangential components of information and find ways to seamlessly search for accurate and honest depictions of complex scientific phenomena.

A third weighs the same tradeoff in the depiction of natural scientific linkages, impacts, and adaptation.