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

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

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

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

7 The Non-uniqueness of Astronomical Images

8 The Eagle Nebula, HST

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

10 Andreas Vesalius, 1543 De Humani Corporis Fabrica

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

12 Micrographia, 1665

13 Hooke’s Flea, Micrographia Illustrations by Robert Hooke

14 Helge von Koch’s ‘Snowflake’, 1904

15 Karl Menger’s Sponge (original 1926)

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

17 Any part of the boundary contains copies of the whole set

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

19 Harold Edgerton, ‘Strobe Alley’ Research Group,1970

20 2500 atoms of the sperm whale Myoglobin protein, Irv Geis, June1961

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

23 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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25 Christiaan Huygens, First graph of a continuous function Median life remaining for a person of given age, 1669

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

27 William Playfair 1786

28 William Playfair (1821)

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

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

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

32 The Earth At Night

33 A Map of an Information Highway Network

34 The 1908 London Underground Map

35 Frank Stingemore’s map of 1931

36 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’

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

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