by Jack Challoner
Language: English
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2022.
272 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780262544351, 0262544350
Summary: Demonstrates the power of images to represent the unseeable, offering visualizations of science that range from the microscopic to the incredibly vast. With more than 200 color images and a text by science writer Jack Challoner, this volume explains and illustrates the techniques by which scientists create visualizations of their discoveries. We see the first detection of a black hole as represented by an image from an Xray telescope, get a direct view of DNA through an electron microscope, and much more. Visualizations are also used to make sense of an avalanche of data--concisely presenting information from the 20,000 or so human genes, for example. Scientists represent complex theories in computer models, which take on a curious beauty of their own. And scientists and artists collaborate to create art from science visualizations, with intriguing results. -- Provided by publisher
Reviews: Isis: A Journal of the History of Science in Society
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