Chart-maker Biography :
▻http://infowetrust.com/specimen
Timeline bars to show you the lives of some of the most influential chart makers, in the style of Joseph Priestley’s 1765 redacted A Specimen of a Chart of Biography.
Joseph #Priestley was an 18th century English polymath (like so many early chart makers) and clergyman most famous for his discovery of oxygen. He was infamous for trying to fuse Enlightenment rationalism with Christian theism. Priestley wrote histories of science and Christianity in an effort to reveal the progress of humanity. In addition to modernizing aspects of education (including valuing all people’s history), this effort also produced a series of wonderful charts. These were the first timeline charts in which individual bars were used to visualize the life span of a person. Thousands of famous people’s lives can be compared across 2,000 years:
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