Even old data is beautiful: A new exhibition at the British Library is paying tribute to the most amazing scientific diagrams in history
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For many, the rise of the infographic is linked to the digital age. Yet a new exhibition will show scientists and statisticians have used images to explain data for centuries, including Edmund Halley and Florence Nightingale, who used a diagram to help drive through health reform.
Beautiful Science: Picturing Data, Inspiring Insight opens tomorrow in the British Library’s Folio Society Gallery. It marks the first time the organisation has ever had a science exhibition and seeks to highlight how important a role picturing data plays in the scientific process.
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Robert FitzRoy, best known as the captain of HMS Beagle aboard which Charles Darwin sailed as a naturalist, is also widely considered to be the grandfather of the modern weather service. This illustration shows how storms and cyclones develop on the border between warm tropical and cold polar air masses and looks remarkably like a modern satellite image
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