Why make colorful images of bacteria that, in reality, are colorless and too small for us to see? What is the difference between a cartoonist's vision of outer space and the professional astronomer's pictures - considering that neither of them have been in space, and that the astronomer's data consists solely of invisible, electric impulses? How is contemporary art at all relevant to cancer research and what would scholars of aesthetic theory gain from the work of nano-scientists? This volume asks simple, yet crucially important questions about scientific data representation, and in...