Cosmic imagery : key images in the history of science / John D. Barrow

London : Bodley Head, 2008. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine hardback copy in a near-fine, very slightly very slightly edge-nicked dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean, strong and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xv, 608 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Introduction. Every Picture Tells a Story -- pt. 1. Stars in Your Eyes -- 1. Midnight's Children -- the Constellations -- 2. Empire of the Sun -- the Copernican World Picture -- 3. Starry, Starry Night -- the Whirlpool Galaxy -- 4. So, You Wanna be a Star -- the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram -- 5. The Artful Universe -- Nebulae -- 6. Omen 1054 -- the Crab Nebula -- 7. A for Andromeda -- the Galaxy Next Door -- 8. Perfect Pitch -- Hubble's Tuning-Fork Diagram -- 9. Some Strangeness in the Proportion -- Peculiar Galaxies -- 10. When Worlds Collide -- Supernova 1987A -- 11. Runaway Universes -- Hubble's Law -- 12. Tomorrow's Worlds -- Friedmann's Universes -- 13. Blow Up -- the Balloon Universe -- 14. Deep Heat -- the COBE Spectrum -- 15. When a Proton Meets a Neutron -- Big Bang Nucleosynthesis -- 16. Blackout -- the Dark Night Sky -- 17. The Tentacles of Time -- the CFA Redshift Survey -- 18. The Final Frontier -- the Hubble Deep Field -- 19. The Times They are a-Changin' -- Space-Time Diagrams -- 20. All Our Yesterdays -- Our Past Light Cone -- 21. Gravity's Rainbow -- the Spectrum of the Inflationary Universe -- 22. The World is Not Enough -- Eternal Inflation -- 23. Gravitational Anonymity -- Black Holes Have No Hair -- pt. 2. Spatial Prejudice -- 1. One Small Step for Man -- the Earth from the Moon -- 2. Mapping the Money -- the Earth at Night -- 3. The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet -- the Ozone Hole -- 4. Darkness at Noon -- Eclipse -- 5. War of the Worlds -- Martian Canals -- 6. Humanity's Golden Discs -- the Pioneer Plaque and the Voyager Record -- 7. ET, Phone Home -- Flying Saucers -- 8. Mister Bentley's Feeling for Snow -- Snowflakes -- 9. Up the Airy Mountain -- Baron von Humboldt's Ecology of Plants -- 10. Rockin' all Over the World -- Smith's Strata -- 11. Gone with the Wind -- Weather Maps -- 12. Walking With Dinosaurs -- the Words and the Pictures -- 13. Stepping Out -- Laetoli Footprints -- 14. The First Picture Show -- the Flowering of Illustration -- 15. Spectacular Bodies -- Vesalius and the Human Frame -- 16. A Flea in Your Eye -- The Ingenious Mr Hooke -- 17. Did the Earth Move for You? -- Continents in Motion -- 18. Show Me the Way to Go Home -- Mercator's Map of the World -- 19. Shapeliness -- the Symmetries of Life -- 20. Making a Splash -- High-Speed Photography -- pt. 3. Painting by Numbers -- 1. The Famous Five -- Platonic Solids -- 2. Does God Play Football? -- Bucky Balls -- 3. Prime Time -- the Sieve of Eratosthenes -- 4. The Square on the Hypotenuse -- the Bride's Chair -- 5. The Times of the Signs + -- x [actual symbol not reproducible] = -- 6. A Pile of Numbers -- Pascal's Triangle -- 7. Chance and Necessity -- Dice -- 8. The Man Who Turned into a Diagram -- the Reverend John Venn -- 9. One-Side Story -- the Mobius Strip -- 10. Cadmus and Harmonia -- Sines and Cosines -- 11. Bridges over Troubled Water -- Chains and Spans -- 12. Infinity -- Where God Divides by Zero -- 13. A New Slant on Infinity -- Cantor's Diagonal Arguments -- 14. The Plotters -- the Origins of the Graph -- 15. The Chartists -- the Enigma of Variations -- 16. Doe, Ray, Me -- the Musical Staff -- 17. Hypercubes -- Visualising Other Dimensions -- 18. Take It to the Limit -- Koch's Snowflake, Sierpinski's Carpet, and Menger's Sponge -- 19. World Without End -- the Mandelbrot Set -- 20. Where Things Happen That Don't -- the Impossible Triangle -- 21. Seeing is Believing -- Visual Illusions -- 22. Two Easy Pieces -- Aperiodic Tilings -- 23. The Sign of Four -- the Four-Colour Theorem -- 24. Your Tube -- the London Underground Map -- 25. Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics -- the Importance of being Normal -- pt. 4. Mind Over Matter -- 1. The Acceptable Face of Science -- Einstein as Icon -- 2. Unweaving the Rainbow -- Newton's Prism -- 3. Foetal Attraction -- Earth's Magnetism is Born -- 4. May the Force Field be with You -- Magnetic Field Lines -- 5. Great Dane -- Bohr's Atom -- 6. All Human Life is Here -- the Periodic Table -- 7. The Lord of the Rings -- Benzene Chains -- 8. Like a Circle in a Spiral -- DNA, the Coil of Life -- 9. All Join Hands -- Molecular Architectures -- 10. Let It Be -- the Binding Energy Curve -- 11. That Hideous Strength -- the Mushroom Cloud -- 12. Writing on Air-Bubble Chamber Tracks -- 13. 'Dick's Funny Little Pictures' -- Feynman Diagrams -- 14. Band on the Run -- a Universal Triple Point -- 15. The Great Universal Catalogue -- the Sizes of Everything -- 16. That Crazy Mixed-Up Cat- Schrodinger's Cat Paradox -- 17. Room at the Bottom -- the Quantum Corral -- 18. Quantum Mirage -- Entangled Photons -- 19. Deja Vu All Over Again -- Xerography -- 20. One Thing Leads to Another -- Moore's Law -- 21. The Secret of the Sands -- the Sandpile. Subjects; 1500-2000. Science History ; Pictorial works. Discoveries in science History. Sciences Histoire ; Ouvrages illustr�s. D�couvertes scientifiques Histoire. 30.01 history of the exact sciences. Discoveries in science.Astronomy. Histories. Cosmology History ; Pictorial works. Astronomy History ; Pictorial works. Art and science History.