Dobson's Arc

Dobson''s Arc is a 136-page hardcover full color volume that collects Duncan Dobson''s collage/painted portraits of famous and important physicists and mathematicians from across the arc of history. Arranged in the chronological order in which the personages lived and accompanied by some biographical information and information about their contributions the pictures form an account of the history of Western science as we know it from antiquity to the present day. The book is written in such a way that many people of diverse ages can enjoy and learn much from it regardless of their existing level of knowledge.