The Beauty of Diagrams

He looks at Leonardo da Vinci's world-famous diagram of the perfect human body, which has many layers from anatomy to architecture, and defines our sp...

When Polish priest and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus developed his extraordinary theory of a sun-centred universe 500 years ago, he was flying in the...

In the mid-1660s, Isaac Newton bought a pair of prisms at a fair near Cambridge, which were to be the basis of a series of experiments that would unlo...

A look at Florence Nightingale's use of statistical graphics as a call to action following her experience of caring for soldiers during the Crimean Wa...

In the last hundred years, one diagrammatic image stands above all others. It represents a scientific breakthrough that has been voted the most signif...

A look at the Pioneer Plaque, which was installed on the unmanned space probe Pioneer 10 to communicate facts about Earth and its inhabitants to poten...