Beautiful Evidence (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Beautiful Evidence Friday, July 31 2009.

• "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. Editors of Scientific American

Shelfari edited the contributors of Beautiful Evidence Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Edward R. Tufte: (Primary Author)