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