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.

2018-02-25

Latin and Visualization

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In Latin, the classic justification for visualization usually argues that verbalization may not be enough to explain complex topics. One of ...
2018-02-17

Dead Monk Tweets

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One of the more charming features of Twitter is its voices of the past, and a favorite of mine is Constantinus Africanus , who introduces hi...
2018-02-11

William of Moerbeke

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William of Moerbeke ( Wikipedia ), a Flemish Dominican, translated many Greek classics into Latin in the 13th century. His work, essential t...
2018-02-06

The Animated Tabula

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The latest update to the Tabula Peutingeriana Digital Plot on my website almost doubles the number of animations, and for the first time sho...
2018-02-04

Wellness Database

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Health tips for laypeople have been one of my minor journalistic lines of business, so I was delighted to see a manuscript of the Tacuinum S...
2018-02-03

Backbone of Europe

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The oldest chart of the western world, the Tabula Peutingeriana, would be better known to map enthusiasts if it were an approachable documen...
2018-01-28

Exultet Roll

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The Vatican Collection's Exultet Roll, one of the great treasures of medieval southern Italian illumination, has just been digitized and...
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