Our aesthetic response to the Universe, and the complexity of concepts through which we understand it, are inherently bound together in how we meaningfully interpret its nature. Over millennia the abstracted and intangible concepts of science have been developed and communicated through a rich array of representations across a variety of modes. The interpretation of such representations is a complex multidimensional and multimodal endeavor. This is particularly an issue in education where novices can struggle to engage with unfamiliar canonical representations. Learning in a discipline can be characterized as a process of developing disciplinary discernment in apprehending and using these representational systems. Using representations concerning the geometry of the Universe, evolution of the Universe, and cosmological expansion as examples, this paper provides an in-depth overview of the various multimodal representations through which concepts in cosmology are understood and communicated. In so doing this work unpacks the salient features of these representations in order to develop an underlying framework which we call the anatomy of representations (AOR). This study, in reviewing and analyzing representations in cosmology, explores this landscape of cosmology representations. This will allow for the characterization of how semiotic resources are mobilized, changed, and connections are made between various representational modes and levels, and an exploration of the landscape of cosmology and cosmology education. The AOR framework is intended as a guide for educators, including textbook authors, to support the development and interpretation of representations.

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可视化的宇宙：开发用于分析宇宙学教育中表征的定性框架

我们对宇宙的审美反应以及我们理解宇宙的概念的复杂性，在我们有意义地解释其本质的过程中固有地联系在一起。几千年来，抽象的，无形的科学概念已经通过各种形式的丰富表示形式得到发展和交流。对此类表示的解释是一项复杂的多维和多模式尝试。在教育中，这尤其是一个问题，新手很难与陌生的规范表示进行接触。在一门学科中的学习可以被描述为发展学科识别力的过程理解和使用这些代表性系统。以涉及宇宙几何，宇宙演化和宇宙学扩展的表示为例，本文提供了对各种多峰表示的深入概述，通过它们可以理解和交流宇宙学的概念。这样，这项工作就可以解开这些表示的显着特征，从而开发出一个我们称为表示解剖（AOR）的底层框架。这项研究在审查和分析宇宙学表征中，探索了宇宙学表征的这一前景。这将有助于表征符号资源被调动，改变，并在各种代表性模式和层次之间建立联系，并探索宇宙学和宇宙学教育的前景。AOR框架旨在作为教育者（包括教科书作者）的指南，以支持表述的发展和解释。