information graphics timeline of development
DESCRIPTION
The history of how information graphics came to be what it is today.TRANSCRIPT
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.
?