Description: A richly illustrated and
beautifully produced book on scientific illustrations and images used by scientists.
From the publisher’s description: “We live in a visual age—an
age of images; iconic, instant, and influential. In this remarkable book, John
D. Barrow traces their history in order to tell the story of modern science.
Certain key images embody our understanding of
life and the universe we inhabit. Some, such as Robert Hooke's first
microscopic views of the natural world or the stunning images taken by the
Hubble Space Telescope, were made possible by our new technical capabilities.
Others, like the first graph, were breathtakingly simple but perennially
useful. Vesalius's haunting pictures of the human anatomy were nothing less
than works of art. In the simple diagram now known as Pythagoras'
Theorem—proved by the ancient Babylonians, Chinese, Indians, and Egyptians long
before the Greeks themselves—lay the foundations for modern mathematics. Many
of these images have shattered our preconceptions about the limits and nature
of existence: the first astonishing pictures of the Earth from space stimulated
an environmental consciousness that has grown ever since; the mushroom cloud
from atomic and nuclear explosions became the ultimate symbol of death and
destruction; the flying saucer came to represent the possibility of
extraterrestrial life; Mercator's flat map of the Earth cemented an entire
worldview.
Cosmic Imagery takes us on a tour through the most
influential images in science. Each holds an important place in the growth of
human understanding and carries with it a story that illuminates its origin and
meaning. Together they reveal something of the beauty and truth of the universe
and why, so often, a picture is better than a thousand words.”
About the Author: John D. Barrow is a cosmologist,
theoretical physicist, and mathematician. He is a professor of mathematical
science at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Millennium
Mathematics Project. He is also a professor of geometry at Gresham
College.
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