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Beautiful Science, sponsored by Winton Capital Management, explores
the work of scientists and statisticians through the ages using the
Library’s own vast science collections together with new and exciting
technology, focusing on three key themes – public health, weather and
evolution.
From an early visual representation of a hierarchically ordered universe
in Robert Fludd’s ‘Great Chain of Being’ (1617) and Florence
Nightingale’s seminal ‘rose diagram’ (1858), which showed that
significantly more Crimean War deaths were caused by poor hospital
conditions than battlefield wounds, to a contemporary moving infographic
of ocean currents from NASA, this exhibition shows how visualising data
has changed the way we see, interpret and understand the world around us."
Via Esther Schindler.
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
