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