ANIMAL VEGETABLE MINERAL

Animal Vegetable Mineral celebrates the beauty and strangeness of the very early infographics, charts, and ordering systems devise d in an age that transformed how we see and understand nature.These are the tools created by pioneering European naturists, artists, scientists, housewives and explorers in the 18th and 19th centuries, in an attempt to better understand (and control) a teeming and shifting natural world: the original big data challenge. In a collision of science, art and imagination, these images and objects r ange from ...[Read more]