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‘Moving Like a Saucer Would’ Kenneth Arnold, 24 th June 1947
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Apollo 8 in Lunar orbit: Earthrise over Smyth’s Sea, William Anders on Christmas Eve 1968
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The Whirlpool Galaxy, or M51, William Parsons (April 1845)
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The Whirlpool, M51 Vincent Van Gogh The Starry Night, (1889)
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The Non-uniqueness of Astronomical Images
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The Eagle Nebula, HST
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The Tower of Tower Falls,Yellowstone 1875 Thomas Moran Cliffs of the Upper Colorado River 1882
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Andreas Vesalius, 1543 De Humani Corporis Fabrica
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Gray’s Anatomy, 1918, 20 th Edn Henry Gray’s Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical, 1858 Illustrations by Dr Henry Vandyke Carter
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Micrographia, 1665
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Hooke’s Flea, Micrographia Illustrations by Robert Hooke
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Helge von Koch’s ‘Snowflake’, 1904
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Karl Menger’s Sponge (original 1926)
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Mandelbrot’s set: the set of points that stay at finite distances form the black region with its infinitely intricate boundary
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Any part of the boundary contains copies of the whole set
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Arthur Worthington’s High-speed photography, (1897)
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Harold Edgerton, ‘Strobe Alley’ Research Group,1970
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2500 atoms of the sperm whale Myoglobin protein, Irv Geis, June1961
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A 10 th century graph illustrating planetary and solar positions versus time
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Nicole Oresme, The Latitude of Forms and Treatise on the Configurations of Qualities and Motions’, 1350-60 ‘Latitude’ = speed is vertical and ‘Longitude’ = time is horizontal
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Christiaan Huygens, First graph of a continuous function Median life remaining for a person of given age, 1669
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James Watt’s Indicator of steam engine pressure vs. volume, 1796 (he kept it secret until 1822)
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William Playfair 1786
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William Playfair (1821)
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The Cover of Gerardus Mercator’s Atlas, or Cosmographical Meditations upon the Creation of the Universe (1585)
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Gall-Peters Equal-Area Projection (1973) Hobo-Dyer Upside-down Equal-area
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Francis Galton The First Weather Chart April 1 st 1875, in The Times
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The Earth At Night
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A Map of an Information Highway Network
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The 1908 London Underground Map
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Frank Stingemore’s map of 1931
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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’
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Harry Beck, The London Underground ‘Diagram’, August 1933
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