‘Moving Like a Saucer Would’ Kenneth Arnold, 24 th June 1947

Apollo 8 in Lunar orbit: Earthrise over Smyth’s Sea, William Anders on Christmas Eve 1968

The Whirlpool Galaxy, or M51, William Parsons (April 1845)

The Whirlpool, M51 Vincent Van Gogh The Starry Night, (1889)

The Non-uniqueness of Astronomical Images

The Eagle Nebula, HST

The Tower of Tower Falls,Yellowstone 1875 Thomas Moran Cliffs of the Upper Colorado River 1882

Andreas Vesalius, 1543 De Humani Corporis Fabrica

Gray’s Anatomy, 1918, 20 th Edn Henry Gray’s Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical, 1858 Illustrations by Dr Henry Vandyke Carter

Micrographia, 1665

Hooke’s Flea, Micrographia Illustrations by Robert Hooke

Helge von Koch’s ‘Snowflake’, 1904

Karl Menger’s Sponge (original 1926)

Mandelbrot’s set: the set of points that stay at finite distances form the black region with its infinitely intricate boundary

Any part of the boundary contains copies of the whole set

Arthur Worthington’s High-speed photography, (1897)

Harold Edgerton, ‘Strobe Alley’ Research Group,1970

2500 atoms of the sperm whale Myoglobin protein, Irv Geis, June1961

A 10 th century graph illustrating planetary and solar positions versus time

Nicole Oresme, The Latitude of Forms and Treatise on the Configurations of Qualities and Motions’, ‘Latitude’ = speed is vertical and ‘Longitude’ = time is horizontal

Christiaan Huygens, First graph of a continuous function Median life remaining for a person of given age, 1669

James Watt’s Indicator of steam engine pressure vs. volume, 1796 (he kept it secret until 1822)

William Playfair 1786

William Playfair (1821)

The Cover of Gerardus Mercator’s Atlas, or Cosmographical Meditations upon the Creation of the Universe (1585)

Gall-Peters Equal-Area Projection (1973) Hobo-Dyer Upside-down Equal-area

Francis Galton The First Weather Chart April 1 st 1875, in The Times

The Earth At Night

A Map of an Information Highway Network

The 1908 London Underground Map

Frank Stingemore’s map of 1931

Harry Beck’s first exercise book sketch of his Underground Diagram ‘I tried to imagine I was using a convex lens or mirror to present the central area on a larger scale’

Harry Beck, The London Underground ‘Diagram’, August 1933

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