JF Ptak Science Books  Quick Post  Part of the History of Dots series

Well, that’s a tricky title, and not quite right, but bits and pieces of it are.  Chuck Close up-close looks much different than this–more likely this image looks more like an early half-tone.  (You can really say that it looks like Seurat [dead at 32!] because it is in black & white and he was all about color.) What the story is is that this tells part of the story of broadcasting pictures by wireless–and the picture below, the picture that will develop after a little bit of removal and a lot of imagination, is that of King George V, the product of disseminating 1,500 dots in a 15-minute broadcast.  The full not-easily explained explanation is below, starting in the third paragraph.  

[Source, Nature, June 16, 1923, page 811.]

Which is a big enlargement of the following, which moving back from it begins to come together like backing away from a close-up of a Chuck Close:

The original is only about an inch tall–when seen in context, the picture becomes clearer: