COMBINING more than 200 images from the history of science with insightful essays, John Barrow’s Cosmic Imagery reveals the power a picture can have in shaping our understanding of the universe.
Some images are obvious choices, such as , , Watson and Crick’s and the Hubble Space Telescope’s of mind-bogglingly remote galaxies. There are also many less obvious ones, including Hermann Minkowski’s first , published in 1908, and a 15th-century student’s notebook showing the earliest surviving use…
