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.

2013-05-26

Stemma of Boethius

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A new tabulation of online Boethius manuscripts which contain his famous stemma, or arbor porphyriana, has just appeared on my website. ( He...
2013-05-25

Our Secret Reasoning Device

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A book published a couple of months ago by the German cognitive scientist Markus Knauff contains some remarkable new evidence and discussion...
2013-05-04

Incoherent?

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Some years ago, the French cultural historian Christiane Klapisch-Zuber examined the Great Stemma. Because she was in Paris, the nearest man...
2013-04-06

Great Minds

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Do great minds think alike? Here a couple of striking quotes separated by a millennium and a half. First of all comes Cassiodorus, who seems...
2013-03-25

Timelines Go 3D

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It's always interesting to see where fifth-century educational techniques are getting us to, 1,600 years later. A couple of modern items...
2013-02-22

Studia Patristica

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Amazingly hard-working Markus Vinzent of the University of London has just announced that the proceedings of the 2011 Oxford Patristics Con...
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2013-02-03

Board Game

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After searching for some time for any ancient board game on which the Great Stemma might possibly be modelled, I believe the best match woul...
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