Cosmic Imagery: Key images in the history of science
John D. Barrow

Bodley Head, £25 (978-0-224-07523-7)
Church Times Bookshop £22.50

Stamps from Macau in 2004 show the COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) satellite (bottom right), the three possible expansion histories of the universe (top left), and radiation findings. From the profusely illustrated book, by a Cambridge professor who tells the story of scientific "icons"

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