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Beautiful Science: Picturing Data, Inspiring Insight
20 February - 26 May 2014
The Folio Society Gallery - admission free
Please note: on Tue 1 April this exhibition will close at 17.30 for a private reception. It will re-open on the following day.
Turning numbers into pictures that tell important stories and reveal the meaning held within is an essential part of what it means to be a scientist. This is as true in today's era of genome sequencing and climate models as it was in the 19th century.
Beautiful Science explores how our understanding of ourselves and our planet has evolved alongside our ability to represent, graph and map the mass data of the time.
From John Snow's plotting of the 1854 London cholera infections on a map to colourful depictions of the tree of life, discover how picturing scientific data provides new insight into our lives.