ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the ways that science is pictured in relation to mechanisms for 'seeing' - taking picturing in its broadest sense to embrace any form of giving visual expression to the content of science whether by direct representation or by the artificial construction of an image intended to convey specific information. In this sense we will not simply be thinking of pictures in terms of those we see in an art gallery - though a few of the images can be considered pictures more or less in that manner - but as any visual transcription of what claims to be how things 'look,' even when it is machines that do the looking and drawing for us. In some instances, as with multi-dimensional geometry or gas chromatography, we are required to think of looking in a rather different way from our normal idea of using the light which is entering the eye to reconstruct the three-dimensional array of objects in the space around us.
