Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science - Softcover

Barrow, John D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393337995 ISBN 13: 9780393337990

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

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. Some images, 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, such as the first graph, were breathtakingly simple but perennially useful. Many of these images have shattered our preconceptions about the limits and nature of existence, and together they reveal something of the beauty and truth of the universe, and why, so often, a picture is better than a thousand words.

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John D. Barrow is professor of mathematical sciences and director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is the best-selling author of many books on science and mathematics, including Mathletics: 100 Amazing Things You Didn't Know about the World of Sports and 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: Math Explains Your World.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393337995
• ISBN 13: 9780393337990
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 624
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