Why use 1000 words when a pictue - or a chart or graph will do? Every ESL and EFL teacher is also an artist or at least can use google images to help teach English.
Here is a BBC news story discussing the power of graphs, charts, and images to convey complex ideas in different formats. Diagram That changed the World.
A picture, the old adage goes, is worth 1,000 words. But in science a diagram can describe things that transcend the written word. A single image can convey the simple underlying pattern hidden by words or equations, says Marcus du Sautoy.
Draw the right picture and you can literally transform the way we see the world. But a diagram is more than just a physical representation of what we see with our eyes.
The power of a diagram is to crystallise a new way of seeing the world.
Often it requires throwing away information, focusing on what is essential. Other times it changes a scientific idea into a visual language providing a new map where the mathematics of geometry takes over and helps us to navigate the science at hand.
Copernicus certainly understood the power of a good picture. In his great opus De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium published shortly before his death in 1543, Copernicus takes 405 pages of words, numbers and equations to explain his heliocentric theory.
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