| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
xv, 608 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), music ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 548-592) and index. |
| Summary |
We live in a visual age, an age of images?iconic, instant, and influential?that have crystallized our conception of the large, the small, and the complex, of both inner and outer space. Some, like Robert Hooke's first microscopic views of the natural world, arose because of new technical capabilities. Others, like the first graphs, were breathtakingly simple but perennially useful. The first stunning picture of Earth from space stimulated an environmental consciousness that has grown ever since; the mushroom clouds from atomic and nuclear explosions became the ultimate symbol of death and destruction; Mercator's flat map of the Earth cemented an entire worldview. John D. Barrow's collection encompasses the frontiers of modern science and its most memorable historic moments. |
| Subject |
Cosmology -- History -- Pictorial works.
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Astronomy -- History -- Pictorial works.
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Cosmology -- History.
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| ISBN |
9780393061772 hardcover |
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0393061779 hardcover |
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