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Jean-Baptiste Piggin is a New-Zealand-born historian. His work in the 1990s on a news-writing style guide and converting legacy documents to the web led him to establish the Macro-Typography guide in 2001. Since 2009 he has been investigating the history of Latin diagrams and maps. A graduate of the University of Auckland, he has lived in Germany for the past 35 years. His writing while a news-agency foreign correspondent on German life and politics appeared in newspapers and news portals worldwide.
Brings news on research into the history of text presentation. Recent posts deal with my discovery of the world's oldest data visualization, the 5th-century Great Stemma. This blog also offers a way to comment on the www.piggin.net website and communicate with the author, Jean-Baptiste Piggin.
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About the Author
Jean-Baptiste Piggin is a New-Zealand-born historian. His work in the 1990s on a news-writing style guide and converting legacy documents to the web led him to establish the Macro-Typography guide in 2001. Since 2009 he has been investigating the history of Latin diagrams and maps. A graduate of the University of Auckland, he has lived in Germany for the past 35 years. His writing while a news-agency foreign correspondent on German life and politics appeared in newspapers and news portals worldwide.
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- Richard Talbert's Peutinger Map
- Roger Pearse's Latin Manuscripts
- Ingo Maier's Notitia Dignitatum
- Joseph Leichter's Ancient Science
- Jeremy Norman's History of Media
- Open DOAR
- Ancient World Open Bibliographies
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