‘Moving Like a Saucer Would’Kenneth Arnold, 24th 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 GoghThe Starry Night, (1889)

The Non-uniqueness of Astronomical Images

The Eagle Nebula, HST

The Tower of Tower Falls,Yellowstone1875

Thomas MoranCliffs of the Upper Colorado River1882

Andreas Vesalius, 1543De Humani Corporis Fabrica

Gray’s Anatomy, 1918, 20th Edn

Henry Gray’sAnatomy, Descriptive and Surgical, 1858Illustrations by Dr Henry Vandyke Carter

Micrographia, 1665

Hooke’s Flea, MicrographiaIllustrations 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 10th century graph illustrating planetary and solar positions versus time

Nicole Oresme, The Latitude of Forms andTreatise on the Configurations of Qualities and Motions’, 1350-60‘Latitude’ = speed is vertical and ‘Longitude’ = time is horizontal

Christiaan Huygens, First graph of a continuous functionMedian 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 Playfair1786

William Playfair (1821)

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

Gall-PetersEqual-AreaProjection (1973)

Hobo-DyerUpside-downEqual-area

Francis GaltonThe First Weather ChartApril 1st 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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