One of the first

maps

(e.g. Çatalhöyük dates

from around 7500 BC to

5700 BC)Pre-historic times: c

ave

paintings

In 1626 Christopher Scheiner

published

the Rosa Ursina siv

e Sol

which used a variety of graphics

to reveal his astro

nomical

research on the su

nIn 1786, W

illiam Playfair

published th

e first data

graphs in his b

ook The

Commercial and Political

Atlas.

In 1857, English nurse

Florence Nightingale used

information graphics

persuading

Queen Victoria

to im

prove

conditions in m

ilitary hospita

ls

1861 saw th

e release of a

seminal inform

ation graphic on

the subject o

f Napoleon's

disastr

ous march

on Mosco

w.James Jo

seph Sylvester in

troduced

the term "g

raph" in 1878 and

published a se

t of diagrams sh

owing

the relationship between

chemical bonds and mathematical

properties. These were also

the

first mathematic graphs.

Early Examples

20th Century Examples

In 1936 Otto Neurath

introduced a sy

stem of

pictographs intended to

function as an international visu

al

or pictu

re language.In 1942 Isi

dore Isou

published th

e Lettrist

manife

sto.

1. Claim2. Ground (Evidence, Data)3. Warrant4. Backing5. Rebuttal6. Qualifier

In 1958 Stephen Toulm

in

proposed a graphical

argument model th

at became

influential in

argumentation theory and its

applications.

Also in 1972 the Pioneer Plaque was launched into space with the Pioneer 10 probe. Inscribed into the plaque was an information graphic intended as a kind of interstellarmessage in a bottle, designed by Carl Sagan and Frank Drake. The message is unique in that it is intended to be understood by extraterrestrial beings.

2005–Present day. The information graphic trend starts to become popular amongst the larger social media aggregation sites Digg Reddit. The data contained in modern info graphics tends to be research centric and attributed to multiple sources.

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