Beautiful evidence

By:

Tufte, Edward R

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: 2006 Graphics Press CheshireDescription: 213 p. : ill. (some col.), mapISBN:

9780961392178

Subject(s):

Visual communication

DDC classification:

302.23 T8B3

Summary: Science and art, according to Tufte, have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information. This book is about how that seeing turns into showing. Tufte, professor emeritus at Yale University and author of three previous widely praised books on visual evidence, displays outstanding examples of the genre. One of the most arresting is Galileo's series of hand-drawn images of sunspots. A colleague of Galileo, the author tells us, said that the astronomer's drawings delight both by the wonder of the spectacle and the accuracy of expression. That, Tufte says, is beautiful evidence.

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Science and art, according to Tufte, have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information. This book is about how that seeing turns into showing. Tufte, professor emeritus at Yale University and author of three previous widely praised books on visual evidence, displays outstanding examples of the genre. One of the most arresting is Galileo's series of hand-drawn images of sunspots. A colleague of Galileo, the author tells us, said that the astronomer's drawings delight both by the wonder of the spectacle and the accuracy of expression. That, Tufte says, is beautiful evidence.

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