Reading Anna Escardó’s SCIENCE ILLUSTRATION: Visual Milestones From the 15th Century to Today (Taschen, 436 pp., $80) is like looking over the shoulder of those scientists.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, goes the old proverb. And that was true for one of history's greatest scientists. In 1831, Charles R. Darwin joined a life-changing ...

Webster built the map as a web application that sits on top of another map which visualizes geological models created by geologist and paleogeographer Christopher Scotese. Scotese’s models ...

China released the world's first set of high-precision geological maps of the moon drawn by China's scientific research team on Sunday, mainly based on scientific exploration data from the Chang'e ...

A geological map of the moon included in the new atlas. [Photo provided by Chinese Academy of Sciences via Xinhua] The world's first complete high-definition geological atlas of the moon, released ...

More medical and scientific illustration Max Brödel / Johns Hopkins University Brödel studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig, Germany, in the 1880s.

He instanced the valuable series of scientific memoirs that, ... to supervise the work. Geological Map of Egypt. Scale 1: 1,000,000 (six sheets) and reduction of the same to the scale 1: 2,000,000.

An early copy of the map was recently made available for sale at £150,000, but the Geological Society says that it is difficult to estimate exactly how much the newly-found map would be worth.