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.

2013-12-13

Rehabilitation for Forgotten Frick

When he was not at the blackboard, Carl Frick, a provincial German schoolteacher, studied the tangled world of Late Antique chronography. In...

2013-12-07

Java Disaster in Florence

The digital library of 3,000-plus manuscripts at the Medicea Laurenziana Library in Florence was introduced on this blog as outstanding ne...

2013-11-05

Transcript in France

A transcription of the Great Stemma text from the Saint-Sever Beatus has appeared in France, along with a detailed introduction to the enti...

2013-10-21

Sicut Lucas

Something I have just noticed is that the art historian Marcia Growden translated into English in 1976 the fulcrum passage of both the Liber...

2013-10-18

Ludicrous Cardboard Cut-Out

At the start of a justly celebrated 1996 article which theorized on why humans benefit by using diagrams, two British authors, the late Mike...

2013-09-17

Berlin Cab Fare Calculator

A while back I quoted Mark Twain on the subject of Berlin's cab-fare calculator at the end of the 19th century. This was a map where ...

2013-09-08

Road Trip

Lisa Fagin Davis has begun a blog , the Manuscript Road Trip, exploring US manuscript collections, east to west. It has begun excitingly, an...

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