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.

2018-06-25

Peek-a-Boo

We all like peek-a-boo pictures and this one from the 13th century is quite elegant. It shows a lady shyly peeking at a suitor (out of sigh...

2018-06-17

The Islands

A remarkable 10th-century manuscript from southern Italy, perhaps from Monte Cassino, reveals some of the first tender shoots of medieval i...

2018-06-11

Lectio Brevior

It's a modest little drawing at the bottom right corner of a page, yet it's a key to the history of visualization. Last week I blogg...

2018-06-03

Map of War

One of the more mysterious of ancient diagrams is a T-O "map" found in medieval manuscripts of the Jugurthine War by Sallust. Who...

2018-05-27

Cicero's Witness

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

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

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

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