The History Of Illustrated Science,

from the past 600 years to now,

it took 700 scientist, and 300 ground-breaking milestones to complete this massive book, titled 'Science Illustration. A History of Visual Knowledge from the 15th Century to Today', the book has more than 300 different charts, renderings, and graphs within its 436 pages, I have posted some of the illustrations below, all images courtesy Taschen,

a slice of the lower part of the root of horseradish cut transversely, An Idea of a Phytological History Propounded, Nehemiah Grew, London, 1673 © ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Rar 6191,

Sagittal section of the body of a male; An Atlas of Topographical Anatomy: After Plane Sections of Frozen Bodies, Christian Wilhelm Braune, Philadelphia, 1877 © Courtesy US National Library of Medicine,

application of anesthesia, ‘Illustrations of Strange Diseases and Their Surgical Treatments,’ Hanaoka Seishū, 1805, illustrated by Tangetsu, image courtesy US National Library of Medicine,

spectra of the stars and nebulae, ‘Spectrum Analysis,’ Henry E. Roscoe, London, 1885, image courtesy of the Smithsonian Libraries, Washington, D.C.

“A Year in the Life of Earth’s CO2”, an ultra-high-resolution computer model gives scientists a look at how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe, Goddard Space Flight Center’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA, 2014. Image © NASA. From medicine and biology to chemistry and astronomy, Science Illustration. a History of Visual Knowledge from the 15th Century to Today, is published by and is available from Taschen and Bookshop, as it happens we have mentioned Taschen numerous times before, they sell so many highly desirable books, and would I like the one above? yes please!