A cartographic
index of time.
A precision instrument for visualizing the relationships between historical events. Every line deliberate. Every proportion measured. Every label set to cut glass.
science
culture
conflict
philosophy
§ 02
Domains
Art
3,902 ENTRIESWar
1,447 ENTRIESPhilosophy
982 ENTRIESEconomics
1,621 ENTRIESExploration
2,317 ENTRIESPolitics
2,748 ENTRIESIdeas
1,089 ENTRIES
§ 03
Selected Transits
−287
Archimedes formulates the principle of buoyancy
1305
Giotto completes the Scrovegni Chapel frescoes
1543
Copernicus publishes De revolutionibus
1789
Storming of the Bastille; ancien régime collapses
1859
Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
1907
Picasso paints Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
1945
Atomic age inaugurated; postwar order forming
1969
Apollo 11 lands at Mare Tranquillitatis
§ 04
Index, Partial
- 042.16Antikythera mechanism−150
- 081.04Hegira, Mecca→Medina0622
- 119.27Magna Carta sealed at Runnymede1215
- 147.83Gutenberg sets the 42-line Bible1455
- 149.20Columbus makes landfall, Bahamas1492
- 168.70Newton's Principia1687
- 177.60Smith publishes Wealth of Nations1776
- 186.50Geneva Convention drafted1864
- 190.50Einstein, miracle year1905
- 194.81UN Charter signed, San Francisco1945
- 198.90Berlin Wall opened1989
- 200.43First reusable orbital launch2015