Macro-Typography

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.

2011-12-07

Hypothetigraphy

Many theories of diagrams are limited in scope to just one or two manifestations of abstract drawings. Diagrammatic representation of numeri...

Graph of Time

Some time ago, my attention was drawn to the graph of planetary displacement from the elliptic with respect to time that was devised for med...

2011-12-04

A Lost Spanish Gospel Book

A fascinating story of a vanished codex is told in an article by Mariano Revilla which was published in Spain 1918-20. As far as I know, it...

2011-11-20

Rufinus

Regular readers of this blog will recall that the Great Stemma is a graphic argument that the contradictory genealogies of Christ could be r...

Avatars of the Word

Traditional scholars tend to sniff at the idea of the uncredentialed researcher searching Latin texts without the full classical education t...

2011-10-31

Visions

I continue to search in vain for a scholarly exploration of data visualization in Antiquity. There is no doubt that Graeco-Roman graphics ar...

Karlsruhe MS

Another Cassiodorus manuscript briefly went online in May at http://www.stgallplan.org/ and now seems to have vanished again. The Karlsruhe ...

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