Any book, not necessarily in computing... any work with outstanding use of diagrams or illustrations to convey an idea. What illustrations impressed you most?
Ask HN: What are the best illustrations in a technical book you've seen?
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#2The Machinery of Life by David S. Goodsell: https://ccsb.scripps.edu/goodsell/machinery-of-life/
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#4Both of Robert Nystrom's books:
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#5Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Sewing.
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#6Wow. There is a book on electrical work call (I think) Wiring Simplified, which I thought very good. Andrew Tannenbaum's book on operating systems (the one with Minix) had good illustrations, I thought.
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#7I liked the illustrations in the COCOMITE guidebook to professional tools, published by Trusco Nakayama in Japan. It’s online in English here:
https://www.orange-book.com/ja/c/cocomite/index.html#UNIVERS...
(The title is from the Japanese ここ見て, koko mite = look here.)