Title: Moving Like a Saucer Would
1(No Transcript)
2Moving Like a Saucer Would Kenneth Arnold, 24th
June 1947
3Apollo 8 in Lunar orbit Earthrise over Smyths
Sea, William Anders on Christmas Eve 1968
4The Whirlpool Galaxy, or M51, William Parsons
(April 1845)
5(No Transcript)
6The Whirlpool, M51
Vincent Van Gogh The Starry Night, (1889)
7The Non-uniqueness of Astronomical Images
8The Eagle Nebula, HST
9Thomas Moran Cliffs of the Upper Colorado
River 1882
The Tower of Tower Falls,Yellowstone 1875
10Andreas Vesalius, 1543 De Humani Corporis Fabrica
11Henry Grays Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical,
1858 Illustrations by Dr Henry Vandyke Carter
Grays Anatomy, 1918, 20th Edn
12Micrographia, 1665
13Hookes Flea, Micrographia Illustrations by
Robert Hooke
14Helge von Kochs Snowflake, 1904
15Karl Mengers Sponge (original 1926)
16Mandelbrots set the set of points that stay at
finite distances form the black region with its
infinitely intricate boundary
17Any part of the boundary contains copies of the
whole set
18Arthur Worthingtons High-speed photography,
(1897)
19Harold Edgerton, Strobe Alley Research
Group,1970
202500 atoms of the sperm whale Myoglobin protein,
Irv Geis, June1961
21(No Transcript)
22A 10th century graph illustrating planetary and
solar positions versus time
23Nicole Oresme, The Latitude of Forms and Treatise
on the Configurations of Qualities and Motions,
1350-60 Latitude speed is vertical and
Longitude time is horizontal
24(No Transcript)
25Christiaan Huygens, First graph of a continuous
function Median life remaining for a person of
given age, 1669
26James Watts Indicator of steam engine pressure
vs. volume, 1796 (he kept it secret until 1822)
27William Playfair 1786
28William Playfair (1821)
29The Cover of Gerardus Mercators Atlas, or
Cosmographical Meditations upon the Creation of
the Universe (1585)
30Gall-Peters Equal-Area Projection (1973)
Hobo-Dyer Upside-down Equal-area
31Francis Galton The First Weather Chart April 1st
1875, in The Times
32The Earth At Night
33A Map of an Information Highway Network
34The 1908 London Underground Map
35Frank Stingemores map of 1931
36Harry Becks 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
37Harry Beck, The London Underground Diagram,
August 1933
38(No Transcript)
39(No Transcript)
401945
41(No Transcript)