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HistoryShots: Prints and Posters that Tell a Story

HistoryShots: Prints and Posters that Tell a Story

Cargo - Gallery Knowledge Cartography 100 Diagrams That Changed the World Since the dawn of recorded history, we’ve been using visual depictions to map the Earth, order the heavens, make sense of time, dissect the human body, organize the natural world, perform music, and even concretize abstract concepts like consciousness and love. 100 Diagrams That Changed the World (public library) by investigative journalist and documentarian Scott Christianson chronicles the history of our evolving understanding of the world through humanity’s most groundbreaking sketches, illustrations, and drawings, ranging from cave paintings to The Rosetta Stone to Moses Harris’s color wheel to Tim Berners-Lee’s flowchart for a “mesh” information management system, the original blueprint for the world wide web. It appears that no great diagram is solely authored by its creator. Most of those described here were the culmination of centuries of accumulated knowledge. Most arose from collaboration (and oftentimes in competition) with others. Christianson offers a definition:

Beautiful/Decay Artist & Design - Daily Art And Design Blog Diagrams in History Skip over navigation You are here: Home > Historian > Resources > Historical Periods > Ancient History > Diagrams in History Support the HAMake a donation More Sharing Services0 Publication date: 29th March 2011 by A. D. Login This resource is FREE for Historian HA Members. Non HA Members can gain instant access for £2.75 Add to basket Diagrams in History One of the gifts of the social sciences to history is the use of expository diagrams; but attention is rarely given to the history of diagrams. Calibration was also involved in the earliest known sundials discovered in Egypt. ^ Top of this pageCopyright © The Historical Association. The Historical Association is Incorporated by Royal Charter.

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