Download or read book The Culture of Diagram written by John Bender and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-20 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defines diagrams as tools manipulated by users to produce new kinds of understanding and demonstrates that a modern diagrammatic knowledge emerged in eighteenth-century visual culture to become the foundation of later nineteenth-century science.