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Graphic Science: Seven Journeys of Discovery de Darryl Cunningham

Graphic Science: Seven Journeys of Discovery

Autor Darryl Cunningham
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 oct 2017

Bazându-ne pe portofoliul editorial al Myriad Editions, descoperim în Graphic Science o abordare vizuală riguroasă a istoriei ideilor, care continuă tradiția autorului de a explica subiecte complexe prin intermediul benzii desenate documentare. Darryl Cunningham își folosește stilul grafic recognoscibil — caracterizat prin linii curate și o narațiune explicativă densă — pentru a scoate la lumină șapte personalități ale căror contribuții științifice au fost marginalizate sau uitate. Putem afirma că acest volum nu este doar o biografie colectivă, ci un efort de recuperare istorică, similar cu demersul din Science Tales, unde autorul a demonstrat o capacitate remarcabilă de a sintetiza fapte tehnice pentru publicul larg.

În paginile acestei ediții, găsim o structură narativă care prioritizează claritatea și accesibilitatea, fără a sacrifica precizia datelor. Comparativ cu Hidden Heroes of Science de Peter Gallivan, care se concentrează pe o audiență tânără (7-9 ani), Graphic Science propune o abordare mai matură și mai analitică, fiind potrivită atât pentru elevi, cât și pentru cititorii adulți interesați de istoria științei. Dacă în lucrări precum Billionaires sau Putin's Russia: The Rise of a Dictator, Cunningham investiga structurile puterii și influenței politice, aici el revine la pasiunea pentru metoda științifică, explorând obstacolele sociale și profesionale pe care acești pionieri le-au depășit.

Experiența de lectură este definită de un ritm alert, susținut de economia desenului, transformând parcurgerea unor descoperiri complexe într-o călătorie vizuală intuitivă. Cartea se poziționează ca un instrument educațional valoros, oferind un context umanizat figurilor din spatele laboratoarelor, într-un format de tip „graphic novel” care facilitează reținerea informațiilor esențiale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780993563324
ISBN-10: 0993563325
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 1
Dimensiuni: 160 x 230 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.09 kg
Editura: Myriad Editions
Colecția Myriad Editions (graphic Novels)
Locul publicării:Brighton, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este ideală pentru cititorii care doresc să descopere istoria științei dincolo de numele celebre. Prin stilul grafic documentar al lui Darryl Cunningham, câștigați o perspectivă clară asupra vieții a șapte savanți subestimați. Este o resursă excelentă pentru elevi și studenți, oferind o alternativă vizuală la manualele clasice și demonstrând cum perseverența individuală a modelat progresul tehnologic modern.

Descriere

  • A beautifully realised, fun and accessible look at seven overlooked scientific pioneers.
  • Darryl Cunningham's Supercrash (Myriad, 2014) won him the Broken Frontier Award for Best Writer.
  • Previous work shortlisted for British Comic Award, British Book Design Award and AOI World Illustration Award.
  • Widely acclaimed in publications such as the Independent, Observer and Publishers Weekly amongst others.

Notă biografică

Darryl Cunningham is the award-winning author of Psychiatric Tales, Science Tales, Supercrash: How to Hijack the Global Economy (a New York Times bestseller), Graphic Science and Billionaires, which won the Best Graphic Nonfiction category in the Broken Frontier Awards 2019. Darryl's books are sold into the USA and Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Turkey, China, India and Korea. He has given talks at the London School of Economics and the City of Arts and Lights, Valencia. In 2015 he was one of 30 world-renowned photographers, painters, sculptors, writers, filmmakers and musicians who were invited to contribute to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Art of Saving a Life project, to promote vaccination in the developing world. In 2018 he was awarded an Honorary Degree of Master of Arts from Leeds Arts University. He lives in Keighley, Yorkshire.

Descriere scurtă

Much is known about scientists such as Darwin, Newton, and Einstein, but what about lesser-known scientists - people who have not achieved a high level of fame, but who have contributed greatly to human knowledge? What were their lives like? What were their struggles, aims, successes, and failures? How do their discoveries fit into the bigger picture of science as a whole?

Overlooked, sidelined, excluded, discredited: key figures in scientific discovery come and take their bow in an alternative Nobel-prize gallery in a colourful novel by Darryl Cunningham.

Antoine Lavoisier: the father of French chemistry who gave oxygen its name, Lavoisier was a wealthy man who found himself on the wrong side of a revolution and paid the price with his life.

Mary Anning: a poor, working-class woman who made her living fossil-hunting along the beach cliffs of southern England. Anning found herself excluded from the scientific community because of her gender and social class. Wealthy, male, experts took credit for her discoveries.

George Washington Carver: born a slave, Carver become one of the most prominent botanists of his time, as well as a teacher at the Tuskegee Institute. Carver devised over 100 products using one major ingredient - the peanut - including dyes, plastics and gasoline.

Alfred Wegener: a German meteorologist, balloonist, and arctic explorer, his theory of continental drift was derided by other scientists and was only accepted into mainstream thinking after his death. He died in Greenland on an expedition, his body lost in the ice and snow.

Nikola Tesla: a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. A competitor of Edison, Tesla died in poverty despite his intellectual brilliance.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell: a Northern Irish astrophysicist. As a postgraduate student, she discovered the first radio pulsars (supernova remnants) while studying and advised by her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish, for which Hewish shared the Nobel Prize in physics while Bell Burnell was excluded.

Fred Hoyle: an English astronomer noted primarily for the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis - the process whereby most of the elements on the Periodic Table are created. He was also noted for the controversial positions he held on a wide range of scientific issues, often in direct opposition to prevailing theories. This eccentric approach contributed to him being overlooked by the Nobel Prize committee for his stellar nucleosynthesis work.

Any one of these figures could have been awarded a Nobel prize. Not every scientific discoverer was lauded in their time, for reasons of gender, race, or lack of wealth, or (in the case of Lavoisier) being too wealthy: in the 21st century, there are many more reparations and reputations to be made.

Darryl Cunningham is also the author of Supercrash, Science Tales and Billionaires.