5. Why has scientific illustration been historically important to the advancement of the body of scientific knowledge?

These practices gave rise to new methods of documenting and displaying nature and its products. Although early modern European artists and naturalists did not deliberately set out principles or rules for creating scientific images, a common set of practices emerged during the period that formed the foundation of scientific illustration into the modern period.

Scientific illustrators are essential to the communication of scientific information because of their ability to translate ideas into visuals that can be used to communicate information to a broad range of audiences.

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the correct answer is c