DataViz History: Vintage Infodesign from Visual Loop

The first picks of today’s round-up come from a long post written back in February, 2012, by blogger Rosa Rubicondior, called The History of Disbelief. Rosa, who usually writes about UK politics, history, religion and science, provides in this post an extended comprehensive overview about the long list of scientific facts once disputed by Creationists, only to be proven wrong years after.

You should definitively read the post, and Rosa featured two classic maps to illustrate it, the Map of the Square and Stationary Earth (1893), by Orlando Ferguson, and Bartolomeu Velho’s 1680 Geocentric System illustration, both shared below:

Map of the Square and Stationary Earth (1893) | Orlando Ferguson

(image: Orlando Ferguson)

(Via Rosa Rubicondior)

Geocentric System (1568) | Bartolomeu Velho

(image: Bartolomeu Velho)

(Via Rosa Rubicondior)

World, with Wind Heads (c.1750) | Battista Agnese

(image: Battista Agnese)

(Via Old Book Art)

Map of Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands (c.1890) | “Transreklama” NKPS

(image: “Transreklama” NKPS)

(Via World Digital Library)

The second pyramid of Memphis (1795) | Frederik Ludvig

(image: Frederik Ludvig)

(Via Vintage Printable)

Governemnt of the U.S vs U.K. (1886) | K B Smellie

(image: K B Smellie)

(Via Tom White)

London Underground map (1908)

(image: London Underground)

(Via Wikimedia)

The motel of the future (1935) | Everyday Science and Mechanics

(image: Everyday Science and Mechanics)

(Via Paleofuture)

Relative Rank of the States for Nine Decades (1878) | Ormando Willis Gray, G. Woolworth Colton

(image: Ormando Willis Gray, G. Woolworth Colton)

(Via David Rumsey Map Collection)

Anatomical chart (1728) | Ephraim Chambers

(image: Ephraim Chambers)

(Via Wikimedia)

The Extent of the British Empire (1941) | Life magazine

(image: Life magazine)

(Via Ptak Science Books)

Africa Population (1913) | J. G. Bartholomew

(image: J. G. Bartholomew)

(Via Michigan State University Map Library)

Die Gantze Welt in ein Kleberblat (1581) | Heinrich Bünting

(image: Heinrich Bünting)

(Via BibliOdissey)