Description
In the age of giant knowledge and virtual distribution, while information trip ever additional and quicker and media shops compete for a fleeting slice of on-line consideration, Data Pictures have swept heart level. Directly nuanced and neat, they distill summary concepts, advanced records, and state of the art discoveries into succinct, compelling, and masterful designs. Cartographers, programmers, statisticians, designers, scientists, and newshounds have advanced a brand new box of experience in visualizing wisdom.
This XL-sized compendium explores the historical past of knowledge Pictures from the Center A long time throughout to the virtual era. Curated by way of Sandra Rendgen, a few 400 milestones span astronomy, cartography, zoology, era, and past. Throughout medieval manuscripts and parchment rolls, complex maps, ideal in style atlasses, and early laptop-based totally Data layout, we systematically holiday down every paintings’s ancient context, together with such highlights as Martin Waldseemüller’s well-known Global map, the meticulous nature research of Ernst Haeckel, and lots of unknown treasures.
Hot at the heels of the most productive-promoting Data Pictures and Figuring out the Global, this 3rd quantity fills the space as an extraordinary reference ebook for knowledge freaks, designers, historians, and someone thirsty for wisdom. A captivating exploration into the lessons, analysis, and lives of generations earlier.
