100 Diagrams That Changed The World is a fascinating collection of the most significant plans sketches drawings & illustrations that have changed the way we think about the world From primitive cave paintings to the complicated DNA double helix drawn by Crick & Watson they chart dramatic breakthroughs in our understanding of the world & its history This fascinating book encompasses everything from the triple spirals found on prehistoric megalithic tombs dating right up to the drawings sent out on the side of space exploration probes Discover Leonardo da Vinci&s beautiful technical drawings pre-empting the invention of manned flight Copernicus&s bold diagrams that dared to tell us that Earth was not at the centre of the Universe as well as the history of the more everyday diagrams that we now take for granted Every diagram is clearly illustrated & placed into context with very accessible text even for the lay reader Diagrams include Egyptian Book of the Dead Chauvet cave drawings Aztec Calendar sheet music Vitruvian Man Galileo&s telescope Hooke&s Micrographia the Porphyrian Tree Dunhuang Star Map Newcomen&s steam engine the Morse Code Brooks Slave Ship William Playfair&s bar chart Thomas Edison&s light bulb Nazi propaganda map sewing patterns Feynman Diagrams the DNA double helix IKEA flat-pack furniture instructions the World Wide Web schematic Carl Sagan&s Pioneer Plaque