From The Morning News:
Cartographies of Time
Selections from a captivating history of timelines—from time circles to time dragons, to a history of the world drawn on a single piece of paper.
In the 1860s, the French engineer Charles Joseph Minard devised a number of new and influential infographic techniques. Among the most famous of his charts from this period is the 1869 Carte figurative des pertes successives en hommes de l’armée française dans la campagne de Russie 1812–1813 comparées à celle d’Hannibal durant la 2ème Guerre Punique. The two diagrams, published together, show the size and attrition of the armies of Hannibal in his expedition across the Alps during the Punic wars and of Napoleon during his assault on Russia. The colored band in the diagrams indicates the army’s strength of numbers—in both charts, one millimeter in thickness represents ten thousand men. The chart of Napoleon’s march includes an indication of temperature as well.
We've looked at a few of these:Francis Galton did pioneering work both in the study of weather and in its mapping. In Meteorographica, or Methods of Mapping the Weather, from 1863, Galton presented a variety of meteorological diagrams including “synchronous charts” such as the one depicted here, indicating weather conditions, barometric pressure, and wind direction at a single historic moment across the geographic space of Europe....MORE
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