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December 21, 2016 | 12:32 pm

Picturing science: top 5 illustrated books

Posted by Barbara Kiser | Categories: Arts, Geology, Natural history, Neuroscience, Psychology

A study from Alexander von Humboldt's detailed expedition notebooks. This cross-sectional study of Chimborazo in Ecuador (1805) shows flora growing at different altitudes.

We live in illustrated times — a golden age for science graphics, data visualisation and scientific illustration generally. Photography has become positively eye-popping — from the cosmoscapes of Hubble to the Earthly delights of nature photography and photo archives the world over. And luckily for us, this gargantuan trove is being steadily funnelled into science-oriented coffee-table books.  Read more

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August 14, 2015 | 2:58 pm

Menageries of the mind

Posted by Barbara Kiser | Categories: Arts, Evolution, Psychology

Aquatint etching from Doty and Waterston's A Swarm, A Flock, A Host

Whatever ‘being human’ means, it seems irrevocably tied to the bestial. In real life we tame, avoid or study animals (think pigs, grizzlies, lab mice). In stories, we freight them with characteristics human, mystical or approximately their own (think the White Rabbit, Moby-Dick, Mrs Tiggywinkle). Beasts are burdened indeed — by human needs, questionings, hopes, dreams, morals and fantasies.  Read more

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