These drawings that changed the world
Throughout history, drawings have contributed to shaping the progress of humanity. Sometimes spectacularly, sometimes more subtly.
The authors of these drawings? Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Gerardus Mercator, Charles Darwin...
Drawings do not just reflect our reality. They help us take action – through communication, and far beyond. Let yourself be inspired by the masterpieces and doodles that have changed the course of history to tell your own.
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Ideas change the world. And to travel, ideas need to be expressed – in words and images.
Drawings act on reality by conveying ideas; sometimes spectacularly, sometimes more discreetly. They have the singular power to make the abstract concrete, to summarise complex concepts in the blink of an eye, and to reveal what makes those concepts work (or not).
The drawings we have selected have helped to change the world in different ways: through exploration, discovery, innovation or explanation.
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Our book “These drawings that changed the world” will be available in January 2025.
