Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science - John D. Barrow

John D. Barrow is one of the most passionate popularisers of science, and he's also one of the most noticeably filled with wonder and joy of the discovery and capable of transmitting this joy and wonder to his readers. Cosmic Imagery is veritably filled with such wonder, and following the old adages of one picture being worth a thousand words and each picture telling a story, it's subtitled key images in the history of science: each of the eighty nine essays making up the book indeed has an image as a starting point. The variety of images is astonishing: from photography of the deep space to Van Gogh's paintings, from electron microscope images to ...  Read the complete review