Diagrams by period

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This article gives an overview of diagrams by period of origin.

[edit] Medieval diagrams

See main article Medieval diagrams

The earliest seeds of visualization arose in geometric diagrams, in tables of the positions of stars and other celestial bodies, and in the making of maps to aid in navigation and exploration.^[1]

[edit] Medieval astronomy

Planetary Movements 10th century	Star map for the celestial globe of Su Song (1020-1101),	Heavily annotated copy of De Sphaera of Sacrobosco. 1230.	Heavily annotated version Sphaera of Sacrobosco, c. 1230.
A volvelle from a sixteenth century edition of Sacrobosco's De Sphaera in the Whipple Collection.	Part of a German "Volksbuch", 1190-1200.	Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi's planetary model, 1284	Image:Lunar eclipse al-Biruni.jpg

See also

[edit] Calendars

Mosaic pavement of a 6th century synagogue at Beit Alpha, Israel.

Calendar from the Catalan Atlas of 1375 by Abraham and Jehuda Cresques.

Illustration form the Aurora consurgens, 15th century AD

[edit] Geographical images

Figure of the Earth from Macrobius, Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis, ca. 1150.

The spherical earth in a 12th century manuscript

John Gower's portrait in his Vox Clamantis and Chronica, ca 1400

[edit] Drawings of artifacts

Drawing of section of an astronomical clock, 1364

Perpetuum Mobile of Villard de Honnecourt (about 1230)

Page from the Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, 1230.

[edit] Biology images

Anatomy of a horse from 15th century AD.

The eye according to Hunain ibn Ishaq, ca. 1200 AD.

De multiplicatione specierum, Roger Bacon, late 13th century.

[edit] Ramon Llull

Ramon Llull (1232–1315) was a Majorcan writer and philosopher. He wrote the first major work of Catalan language literature. Recently surfaced manuscripts show him to have anticipated by several centuries prominent work on elections theory. He is sometimes considered a pioneer of computation theory, especially given his influence on Gottfried Leibniz.

Raimundus Lullus Ars Magna Tree, ca 1305.

Ars Magna Fig 1

Ramon Llull - Ars Magna Fig 1-4

Arbol ciencia ramon llull, 1505.

See also

Porphyrian tree

[edit] Nicholas Oresme

Nicholas Oresme (c. 1323 - 1382) was one of the most famous and influential philosophers of the later Middle Ages. He was an economist, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, philosopher, psychologist, musicologist, theologian and Bishop of Lisieux, a competent translator, counselor of King Charles V of France, one of the principal founders and popularizers of modern sciences, and probably one of the most original thinkers of the 14th century.

Illustration of the Celestial spheres, 1377

A page from Tractatus de latitudinibus formarum, 1505

Oresmes diagrams, 1505

[edit] 16th century diagrams

[edit] Astronomy images

Nicolaus Copernicus, 1543.

Diagram from Mysterium Cosmographicum by Johannes Kepler (1596)

Cosmolabe by Jacques Besson, 1567-1569.

See also

Leonardo da Vinci

[edit] 17th century diagrams

Schéma de l'automate planétaire de Huygens, 1686

Picture in Galileo's Discorsi (1638),

[edit] Drawings by Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

Drawing from book Principles of Philosophy by René Descartes

Drawing from René Descartes'

Drawing from René Descartes in "Meditations Métaphysiques"

Drawing from book Principles of Philosophy by René Descartes

[edit] 18th century diagrams

[edit] Tables and drawings by Carl von Linné

Table of the Animal Kingdom, 1735.	Classification system, 1735.	Regnum vegetabile, 1735.	Classification system, 1736
Sexual system of plants, 10th edition 1758.	Illustration from Hortus cliffortianus, 1737.	Illustration from Hortus cliffortianus, 1737.	Drawing by Georg Dionysius Ehret in 1736

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[edit] Tables of drawings in the Cyclopaedia

Cyclopaedia: A Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (folio, 2 vols.) was an encyclopedia published by Ephraim Chambers in London in 1728, and reprinted in numerous editions in the 18th century. The Cyclopaedia was one of the first general encyclopedias to be produced in English.

Moldings on the Table of architecture	Table of Astronomy, p.164	Table of Geography and Hydrography.	Table of Mechanicks
Table of Optics	Table of Trigonometry, 1728