Saturday 15th March
17:00 - 18:00
Science
£7/£6
We live in a visual age – an age of images: iconic, instant and influential. Cosmic Imagery takes us on a tour through the most influential images in science, including Robert Hooke‘s first microscopic views of the natural world, the first breathtaking pictures of the Earth from space which stimulated an environmental consciousness, the mushroom cloud from atomic and nuclear explosions which became the ultimate symbol of death and destruction, and Mercator‘s flat map of the Earth that co-ordinated an entire world-view. Together they reveal something of the beauty and truth of the universe, and why, so often, a picture is better than a thousand words.