Classic 1950s Science Textbooks Get 21st-Century Update

Courtesy Wired: Culture  Wed, 12/02/2009 - 19:00

A series of textbooks dating from the 1950s taught a generation of students that science could also be art.

But research progresses and artistic methods evolve, so Wired has brought these mid-century classics up to date.


 

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