Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science

by John D. Barrow

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0393061779

ISBN13:9780393061772

Release Date:September 2008

Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company

Length:624 Pages

Weight:3.00 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 7.4" x 9.5"

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Astronomy Astronomy & Astrophysics Astronomy & Space Science Cosmology Education & Reference Essays & Commentary History & Philosophy Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology Textbooks

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