Seeing Science: How Photography Reveals the Universe

Seeing Science: How Photography Reveals the Universe 

by Marvin Heiferman 

Language: English 

[Baltimore, Maryland]: Aperture ; UMBC, New York, NY, 2019.

223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. 

ISBN: 9781597114479, 1597114472 

Summary: Seeing Science' offers an insightful and reader-friendly collection of essays and pictures about photography's role in visualizing science and building human knowledge from micro to macro levels and everything in between. Photography and science have long been intertwined, helping to shape the way we look at the world. Scientists use photography as a way to gather information, explore, and learn, but just as important, photography is also used to promote scientific advances and has long served as an interface between the sciences and the public. Science is less an edifice of facts than a process of discovery and inquiry. In this way, it is not dissimilar to art; artists have engaged with some of the same scientific principles, using photography to imagine the world differently and present us with new experiences and ways of seeing. This volume presents both perspectives, exploring how science is made perceptible, featuring over three hundred images and sixty short texts.

Reviews: Visual Communication Quarterly

Seeing Science: The Art of Making the Invisible Visible

Seeing Science: The Art of Making the Invisible Visible 

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

Theories for Everything: An Illustrated History of Science From Inventions of Numbers to String Theory

Theories for Everything: An Illustrated History of Science From Inventions of Numbers to String Theory 

by John Langone, Bruce Stutz, Andrea Gianopoulos 

Language: English 

Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, ©2006. 

407 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. 

ISBN: 9780792239123, 0792239121 

Summary: Provides behind-the-scenes accounts of some of history's greatest science discoveries.

Reviews: Booklist; Kirkus Reviews; Science News

An Illustrated History of Science: From the Development of Agriculture to the Creation of Artificial Intelligence

An Illustrated History of Science: From the Development of Agriculture to the Creation of Artificial Intelligence 

by Mary Cruse 

Language: English 

London: Sirius Publishing, a division of Arcturus Publishing Limited, 2019. 

256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) ; 29 cm. 

ISBN: 9781789505702, 9781789502343, 1789505704, 1789502349 

Summary: "Delve into the cutting-edge science of the 21st century - genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, sustainable energy projects. Cruse even speculates on which breakthroughs are yet to come ... Filled with useful timelines, fun facts and profiles of key characters, Illustrated History of Science is a fascinating read that the whole family can enjoy."

Super Vision: A New View of Nature

502.2/2
Q161.7 .A43 2003
Amato, Ivan
Super vision : a new view of nature
New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2003.
232 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
$40.00 (trade cloth)
ISBN: 0810945452 (hardcover)
Reviews: Publishers Weekly, Booklist