THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGE/

Like an elegant picture album of the history of science, The Scientific Image: from Cale to Computer charts the efforts of professio nals and amateurs to represent their obsenations of natural phenomena through illustrations. It is a celebration of the insatiable c uriosity and the desire to explain which are the t-,vin inspirations of scientific discovery. The images author Harry Robin has asse mbled here range from the skv charts of the ancient Siberian Chukchis to NASA's most sophisticated computer imagen,. Included are il lustrati...[Llegir més]