The Scientific Image: From Cave to Computer (Library of American Art)
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Rating | : | 4.20 (614 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0810938235 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Throughout, insightful commentary describes each image in its context.. Included are illustrative works from the bestknown names in science-Einstein, Newton, Gallileo, da Vinci, Ben Franklin, Darwin, Edison, Watson and Crick-as well as ingenius creations from obscure sources. Like an elegant picture album of the history of science, The Scientific Image: from Cale to Computer charts the efforts of professionals and amateurs to represent their obsenations of natural phenomena through illustrations. It is a celebration of the insatiable curiosity and the desire to explain which are the t-,vin inspirations of scientific discovery. The images author Harry Robin has assembled here range from the skv charts of the ancient Siberian Chukchis to NASA's most sophisticated computer imagen,