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Visualizing History
Pages from Elizabeth Peabody's Universal History: Arranged to Illustrate Bem's Charts of Chronology. New York: Pub. for the author by Sheldon and Co, 1859. A system for charting historical events on a grid (representing historical periods, arranged chronologically); squares, divided into 9 parts each, to represent distinct categories of historical events; and colors, to show different "Nations".
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September 2, 2011
Beinecke Library, Shirley Collection, 19th, book, century, display, education, grid, history, information, manual, peabody, quantitative, school, tufte, visual
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