Seeing science : the art of making the invisible visible / Jack Challoner.

"We live among patterns of delicate beauty and exquisite chaos that our eyes can't detect; we are surrounded by invisible particles and shifting fields of matter that permeate all of space. Our very cells are intricate molecular machines, and the story of our origins stretches back through an unimag...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Challoner, Jack (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 2022.
Edition:MIT Press edition.
Subjects:
Visual communication in science.
Information visualization.
Science > Data processing.
Science > Pictorial works.
Science.
Illustrated works.
Pictorial works.
Genre:
Pictorial works.
Illustrated works.
Physical Description:272 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: the importance of seeing
  • Making the invisible visible
  • Microscopes and telescopes
  • Photography and electron microscopes
  • Beyond the visible spectrum
  • Fields and particles
  • Data, information, knowledge
  • Visualizing data
  • Communicating information
  • Passing on knowledge
  • mathematical models and simulations
  • Mathematics as a model of reality
  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Art in science
  • Art and Science
  • Paleoart
  • Space art.