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.

2013-06-23

Pliny Manuscript

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Roger Pearse's post also points us to the principal manuscript of Book 35 of Pliny's Natural History where the practice of placing...

New Eusebius Tables Coming Out This Year

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Roger Pearse mentioned yesterday how "F. Mone" discovered in Austria in 1853 a key palimpsest containing books 11-15 of Pliny the...
2013-06-02

Mistaken Improvements

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The power of visual spatial displays often comes from their ability to simplify and abstract from reality, says Mary Hegarty in a 2011 pap...
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...
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