The History of Information Graphics
Lesson 4
- Greeks, Romans and the early Christianity
General conclusions
- Lack of Greek and Roman examples
- Christian, medieval copies
- Geometry
- Ptolemaic system of the world
- Development in logic, taxonomy, classification
Fragment of a papyrus copy of Euclid's Geometry Book II, c100?, University of Pennsylvania
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Tabula Peuntingeriana - Roman road map. c150?, copy from the 13. century
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Tabula Peuntingeriana - Roman road map. c150?, copy from the 13. century
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Ptolemy's World Map according to Ptolemy's Geographia. Reconstruction, 15. century.
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Ptolemy's World Map according to Ptolemy's Geographia, c150. Reconstruction, 15. century.
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Plan of St. Gall, ca800.
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Canon tables
London canon table, Eusebius, 6. century, London, British Library
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Garima Gospel, canon table, c. 600, Abba Garima Monastery, Ethiopia
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Book of Durrow, 7. century, Dublin, Trinity College
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Book of Kells, 9. century Dublin, Trinity College
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Chronological tables
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Parian marble chronicle, BC 260k. Oxford, Ashmolean
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Eusebios of Caesarea - Chronicon, Jerome's latin translation, 450c.
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Peter of Poitiers - Chronological table of the kings of Judea - Historiae Compendium, 1210c, British Library
- Aristotle - Kategoriai/Organon
- Porphyry - Isagoge / Porphyrian tree
- Boethius
- Eusebius
- Ramon Llull - Arbor scientiae
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The Tree
The "Temptation" seal - Akkadian period, 2200BC
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Homa
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Fusang tree, China, 2nd century BC
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Adam and Eve, Catacomb of Marcellinus and Peter, Rome, 3d century
Forms, shapes and method
Metaphoric
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System
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Boethius - Arbor Porfyriana, 520k
Ismeretlen - table of relatives - Codicis Theodosiani Libri Sexdecim 4r MS Lat. 4410, Bibliothéque Nationale, 850c
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Ekkehard - Karolingian dynasty, 1120k
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Isidor of Seville - Etymologiae, copy, 1136,
British Library
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Floreffe Bible, 1170c, British Library
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Codex Beatus - Genealogy of Christ 1180c Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Peter of Poitiers - Compendium Historiae
Harvard Houghton Library
1200-1250
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Joachim of Fiore - Liber Figurarum, 1202k
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Ramon Llull - Arbor Scientiae, (1250k) 1505
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Speculum Theologiae - Ten commandments, Tree of the Virtues and the Vices fája, Yale University, Beinecke Library, 1300k
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Speculum Theologiae - The tower of wisdom, Yale University, Beinecke Library, 1300k
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Trajan's column, Rome, 107-113
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History of Information Graphics 4
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