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100 Diagrams That Changed The World: From The Earliest Cave Paintings To The Innovation Of The IPod (2012)

by Scott Christianson(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0452298776 (ISBN13: 9780452298774)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Plume

review 1: If you are a history buff, you will like this book. If you are a visual learner, you will like this book. If you are both, you will LOVE this book. It is exactly what the title implies, 100 miniessays centered around diagrams that had mega-impact. Each one is fascinating in its own right, and when lined up all together there is another layer of insight: you can see some ways in which our visualization of new ideas has shifted over the centuries, and, importantly, how in many other ways, the power of a simple sketch is remarkably constant, from the Chauvet cave drawings to the initial iPod design.
review 2: Taken me a while to finish, but loved it - ESP those that are purely innovations in visual display, not secondary, like the first bar chart and the history m... moreap and Florence Nightingale's rose chart and my fav Taccola's first exploded view. Loved Micrographia and by innovation the first bacteria; really so much in here! But gee, could have been double in size. Type is smaller than the Times and captions done in light grey. Double size images would be better too. less

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