the result being that the student can get from this book a general view of the development of biology, yet with enough concrete illustration and biographical information to be vivid. The author ...

The illustrations come from books that span the past half-century ... The subjects traipse from the magic of math to the biology of a decaying log to the engineering of a skyscraper.

THESE seminal scientific images, taken from the new book Science Illustration: A history of visual knowledge from the 15th century to today by Anna EscardÓ (published by Taschen), are more than ...