Portraits of the Mind
The brain as scientists have seen it over the centuries, told through striking pictures.
Carl Schoonover’s illustrated history of how scientists have pictured the brain, from antiquity to the present. It gathers centuries of images, from early anatomical drawings to modern microscope and scanner pictures of neurons and their connections, with short texts explaining what each technique revealed. It can be read in full or browsed for the pictures.
Recommended by 1 Person
Tanya Byron
This is a picture storybook about the brain, which sounds really mad. But both my kids have looked at it with me. My son is nearly 13, and my daughter is 15, and they really liked it. It is such an engaging book because the brain is so fascinating – but people are quite often scared to think about it.
Interview · March 2011
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