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.

2018-05-27

Cicero's Witness

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I've blogged a couple of times before ( here and here ) about the world's most famous unreturned library book, the unique copy of C...
2018-05-24

Via Appia Found on Satellite Image

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The Appian Way is perhaps the world's most celebrated road. On the outskirts of Rome it is a major tourist attraction. I have just disco...
2018-05-22

First Accounting Handbook

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Luca Pacioli , the mathematician who instructed Leonardo da Vinci and for a time lived in the same house, hand-wrote a remarkable textbook, ...
2018-05-12

Early Physics

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Basic ideas of modern physics go back well beyond Isaac Newton to the English scientist Richard Swineshead, who enters the scene in about 13...
2018-05-07

This Oldest Map is a Beauty

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The oldest surviving Latin diagram of the world was rediscovered by accident in the Vatican Library in the 1920s. Youssouf Kamal (1882-1965)...
2018-05-03

Show Me Your Money

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The Vatican Library's digital portal expanded this week to take in three new classes of document: 3 new collections have been added o...
2018-04-23

Rich Student

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Among the most tragic figures associated with the Vatican Library is Fabio Mazzatosta, a very wealthy student at Rome in the 15th century w...
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