Drawing and Scientific Environments, from Ruskin to Rover

Within life sciences and the crisis they are experiencing, at least three very different approaches coexist: solving a problem – and discovering new ecological production processes; raising a problem – and trying to make it more perceptible; shifting attention – from a history of innovation to a history of uses, particularly through the visual history of representations. Stéphane Van Damme, a professor of history of science at the European University Institute in Florence, has recently offere...