100 Diagrams That Changed The World is a fascinating collection of
the most significant plans, sketches, drawings and illustrations
that have changed the way we think about the world. From primitive
cave paintings to the complicated DNA double helix drawn by Crick
and Watson, they chart dramatic breakthroughs in our understanding
of the world and its history.This fascinating book encompasses
everything from the triple spirals found on prehistoric megalithic
tombs dating right up to the drawings sent out on the side of space
exploration probes. Discover Leonardo da Vinci's beautiful
technical drawings, pre-empting the invention of manned flight,
Copernicus's bold diagrams that dared to tell us that Earth was not
at the centre of the Universe, as well as the history of the more
everyday diagrams that we now take for granted. Every diagram is
clearly illustrated and placed into context with very accessible
text even for the lay reader.Diagrams include: Egyptian Book of the
Dead, Chauvet cave drawings, Aztec Calendar, sheet music, Vitruvian
Man, Galileo's telescope, Hooke's Micrographia, the Porphyrian
Tree, Dunhuang Star Map, Newcomen's steam engine, the Morse Code,
Brooks Slave Ship, William Playfair's bar chart, Thomas Edison's
light bulb, Nazi propaganda map, sewing patterns, Feynman Diagrams,
the DNA double helix, IKEA flat-pack furniture instructions, the
World Wide Web schematic, Carl Sagan's Pioneer Plaque.
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