The 50 Greatest Fashion Designers

Geometry, the telescope, the periodic table, radium - each traces back to a handful of minds that changed how we see the world. This book examines fifty of them, from Newton and Darwin to Einstein, setting their discoveries against the disease they helped combat and the complexities of nature and human beings they helped explain. Photographs, artworks and diagrams accompany each entry, tracing how these individual breakthroughs added up to our modern understanding of both the everyday and the cosmic.