Media Contributed by Rick
Alfonso X cropped from: Monument to Alfonso X in La Puebla del Río, province of Seville.
Kepler's Trigon A diagram of great conjunctions by Johannes Kepler. While teaching, he had the striking realization that a circle was inscribed by the periodic occurrence of the conjunctions and that might be related to the orbits of the plants.
Kepler's Platonic solid model of the Solar system By Johannes Kepler from his Mysterium Cosmographicum Tübingen 1596
Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Émile Gagnan Co-inventors of SCUBA
Jacques Cousteau In his iconic red cap
August 1985 Scientific American Cover A 1985 column in Scientific American showed how simple computer programs could be used to view fractal pioneer Benoit Mandelbrot's eponymous set
The first published picture of the Mandelbrot set, by Robert W. Brooks and Peter Matelski in 1978 Mandelbrot himself was introduced to the set that bears his name two years after it was first published
