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IMAGING SCIENCE

a menu of possibilities

CONCEPTS

ANATOMY
ASTRONOMY

BOTANY
CHEMISTRY
DENTISTRY
ELECTRICITY
ENGINEERING

 

HOROLOGY
MATHEMATICS

MINERALOGY
NAVIGATION
OPTICSD
MILITARY SCIENCE

 

FAD FOR MOLECULES

 

CONCEPTS

MICROSCOPYN

IMAGE OF THE SCIENTIST

THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

 

MAD SCIENCE
GREAT CLICHES

PULP SCIENCE
PROJECTIVE GEOMETRY

 

PHYSICS
SURGERY

SURVEYING

 

BOOK TITLES

UTRIUSQUUE COSMI HISTORIA, FLUDD SELECTED PLATES

FAIRYLAND OF SCIENCE
TOM TIT

BYRNE'S EUCLID
GILBERT CHEMICAL MAGIC

L"AIR 1880

THE CHEMISTRY OF COMBUSTION (colourcard)

 

WELLCOME COLLECTION

WAR AND MEDICINE

MEDICINE MAN

MEDIEVAL BODIES

FORENSICS, The Anatomy of Crime

DIRT, The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life

 

 

RESEARCH LIST

VISUALIZATIONS, Martin Kemp, (biblio)

THE SCIENCE OF ART Martin Kemp, (biblio)

SEXUALITY AND MEDICINE in the Middle Ages, biblio

SCIENTIFIC DIAGRAMS, from Science for a Polite Society, Geoffrey Sutton.

LANDMARKS OF WESTERN SCIENCE, Peter Whitfield, biblio

MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS, Joyce Brown biblio, Science Museum, 1979

J.TYNDALL, Ice and Water Flow, 1874

CREATION Modern Art and Nature (for Roland Penrose) BIBLIO

ISLAMIC SCIENCE, biblio (World of Islam Festival)

 

THINGS CHEMICAL, A CHRISTMAS KEEPSAKE

 

ELSEWHERE IN VTS

SCIENTIFIC PROPOSITIONS IN A LANDSCAPE
POPULAR SCIENTIFIC RECREATIONS

CHILDREN'S ENCYCLOPEDIAS - a selection
ZODIACAL MAN (BODY as REPOSITORY)
THE PICTURE MAGAZINE 1893 SCIENCE AND MAGIC TRY

THE PICTURE MAGAZINE, PARLOUR MAGIC

CURES AND CURIOSITIES IN THE WELLCOME INSTITUTE a selection

FOUR WAYS TO VENUS, IRVING GEIS PAMPHLET

ROUTLEDGE, DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 1899

LIGHT AND COLOUR, 1962, images by Patricia Hamilton

IMPORTANT INSTRUMENTS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 1550-1950 , Sotheby's 1997 selection from a sale catalogue

SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS AND LITERATURE, the property of the late Saul Moskowitz, Christies, 1992 a selection

ISLAMIC SCIENCE, a selection of images

 

THE WONDER BOOK SERIES

 

 

THE POPULAR SCIENCE EDUCATOR VOLUME ONE
THE POPULAR SCIENCE EDUCATOR VOLUME TWO

THE WORLD OF WONDER VOLUME ONE 1932
THE WORLD OF WONDER VOLUME TWO 1932

THE WORLD OF WONDER NEW SERIES 1932

WARREN G SMITH MEDICAL LIBRARY 1994

 

THE WONDER BOOKS.... (five titles)

 

SINGLE IMAGES

THE LABORATORY ABOARD HMS Challenger

THE TOTALITY Perrault and Dodart, Academie Royale des Sciences, Hague 1731 
THE DNA SPIRAL, MAX GSCHWIND, FORTUNE JUNE 1960

EXCURSIONS IN MADEIRA, T.BOWDITCH 1825, GEOLOGICAL STRATA
L.Zubler, reading the sun dial by starlight
SCIENTIFIC RECREATIONS

ANTI-FREEZE - MOLECULAR STRUCTURES

NATURE DISPLAYED... FOR YOUNG MINDS,The Dutch Spying Glass 1733/48

 

 

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This collection of images celebrates the ways in which aspects of science are communicated in visual form. It is far from comprehensive but more will be added. It demonstrates ways in which the dictates of the information challenge the ways in which the pages are laid out, the balance of text and image/s, the use of colour, the point of view, the repertoire of the diagrammatic, even the balance of seriousness and the jocular.

 

The Scientific Propositions in a landscape section explores what happens on the page when the abstract and the representational are incorporated within the same page.

 

I was inspired by Nigel Henderson and others of his generation in the Independent Group for whom the images of science were a constant and vital source of delight in understanding the world and its ways.