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From The Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs

Taken from the Astronomy article in the first edition of Encyclopædia Britannica (1777).

Dunhuang star map. ca. 700 CE (Tang Dynasty)

Edward Tufte’s sculptures of Feynman’s diagrams.

Michael Paukner’s The Bigger Picture Album on Flickr is a fascinating tour of some of history’s biggest ideas as visualized through Paukner’s informative and elegant poster designs. The ideas represented span the range from conventional thought to controversial theories both old and new. All of the images are accompanied by a brief description and history of the theories represented.

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Play with the interactive, zoomable version here. Awesome stuff!

Mayan Interdimensional Star Map

“visual analysis of a piece of music from a color-theory class with vasily kandinsky_1930” via feltron

Dec 20 2011: Cadence Systems (by grmblshi)