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Daniel Rosenberg (2) (1966–)

Autor(a) de Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline

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Obras por Daniel Rosenberg

Histories of the Future (2000) — Editor — 31 exemplares
Cabinet 13: Futures (2004) 15 exemplares

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Lots of cool pictures, commentary was interesting also.
 
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steve02476 | 3 outras críticas | Jan 3, 2023 |
I think it has been in my primary school that I came into contact with chronographs: graphic representations of history, usually chronologically, in the form of a timeline. I see them still hanging in the classroom, at a fairly high altitude, starting with the 'prehistory' and ending in the culmination of our civilization: the kingdom of Belgium (yes, I still date from the times that national history was the pinnacle of the history lesson).

This book outlines how that chronographic representation of time originated and evolved, from the tables of Eusebius in the 4th century, to the timelines that you find in numerous graphic applications on your computer or in museums. In their introduction, the authors put a strong emphasis on the conceptual history visions that underlie those graphic representations, and that was exactly what pulled me to reading this book: “traditional chronographic forms performed both historical work and heavy conceptual lifting. They assembled, selected, and organized various bits of historical information in the form of dated lists. And the chronologies of a given period may tell us as much about its visions or past and futures as do its historical narratives.” In other words: the representations should reflect an own representation of time/history at the conceptual level.

Unfortunately, the authors have completely lost sight of this intention en route. This whole book is a somewhat chronological sketch of the various forms of chronographs with emphasis on the technical and practical aspects: in tables, diagrams, tree-structure representations, with pictograms or concrete visual representations, colored or not, etc. Pretty interesting, certainly, but there is hardly anything to be found in this book about the conceptual background and implications of these various forms. Regrettable. Moreover, many illustrations are so small that you can hardly distinguish anything relevant. A missed opportunity.
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bookomaniac | 3 outras críticas | Dec 24, 2019 |
I was skeptical that the authors could find enough information in timelines to fill 200+ pages, but I was pleasantly surprised at how they tied in graphical representations of time with the philosophy and current events of the time period, from Biblical chronology to the Cold War.
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Katya0133 | 3 outras críticas | Oct 2, 2016 |
I didn't finish this. It's not bad, but about half way through I decided I didn't really care.

The illustrations are lovely. The text seems to keep repeating more or less the same thing, just with different names. It's also too big and heavy for comfortable reading.

I was reading the German edition. Some of my difficulties could have been due to the translation.
 
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MarthaJeanne | 3 outras críticas | Jan 31, 2016 |

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497
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3.9
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23
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