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Graphic Presentation (1939)
- red_admiral 3y agoIs (1939) the oldest date reference on HN so far?
- ginko 3y agoAlmost certainly not. Just today we had a (1940) submission[1] and I remember stuff from the 19th century at least. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39438773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39438773
- shmageggy 3y agoThese are fairly easy to find using HN search (https://hn.algolia.com https://hn.algolia.com) Here's one from 1584: Natural Magick (1584) 67 points by brudgers on Oct 8, 2019 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21180895 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21180895) I'm sure you could easily go back further
- madcaptenor 3y agoBack to 1300: Adriaen Coenen’s Fish Book (1580) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10267645 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10267645 That to Study Philosophy Is to Learn to Die (1580): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26611980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26611980 The Geometric Landscapes of Lorenz Stoer (1567): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25735432 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25735432 Qvestions of Love, and the Ansvvers (1566): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11836805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11836805 Concerning Prohibited Books (1563): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31139174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31139174 Magia Naturalis (1558): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20736083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20736083 Bruegel the Elder’s “Big Fish Eat Little Fish” (1556): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30603305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30603305 De Re Metallica (1556): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8381659 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8381659 The Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (1542): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39247090 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39247090 Carta Marina (1539): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29369517 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29369517, submitted multiple times Tabulae anatomicae by Andreas Vesalius (1538): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29369517 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29369517, submitted multiple times Chapter III. Concerning Mixed Principalities (1532): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30450709 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30450709 (an excerpt from Machiavelli) The Very First Written Use of the F Word in English (1528): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7220683 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7220683 (although the post it links to wasn't written in 1528) Albrecht Dürer’s Pillow Studies (1493): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30496850 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30496850 Leonardo Da Vinci’s To Do List (circa 1490): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13187316 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13187316 Kitchen Appliances: Bedlam in da Vinci's kitchen (1490): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11890162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11890162 Leonardo da Vinci’s Handwritten Resume (1482): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7102356 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7102356 Evrard D'Espinque’s Illuminations of De Proprietatibus Rerum (Ca. 1480) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33117656 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33117656 The Virgin and Child, three heads in profile and other sketches (c. 1478-1480): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31054300 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31054300 The Ideal City (1480-1484): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9284222 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9284222 Destroy the printing press (1473): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15921971 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15921971 Behold the Nebulous Smear: al-Sūfī's Illustrated Book of Fixed Stars (ca. 1430): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38080228 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38080228 The Flower of Battle: Italian Fighting Manual (1410): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29818057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29818057 Equatorie of the Planetis (1393): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7813851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7813851 Isabella of Valois, Queen of England, married at the age of 6 (1389): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37460751 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37460751 Marckalada: The First Mention of America in the Mediterranean Area (C. 1340): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34416544 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34416544 The Divine Comedy (1321): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8710792 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8710792 Towards the end multiples of 10 become more common - I suspect a lot of the years aren't exact. Also some (1528, 1389) are "when the thing happened" and not "when the text was written"
- madcaptenor 3y agoAnd then I realized I could search for "BC" and found: The Maxims of Ptahhotep (circa 2350 BC): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30425039 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30425039
- emmelaich 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops is submitted occasionally. It's from 1909
- thsksbd 3y agoAmazing book
- livrem 3y agoCoincidentally I posted a link to an article from 1893 earlier today: On Electric Spark Photographs; Or, Photography of Flying Bullets, etc. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39479222 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39479222
- Archelaos 3y agoI have added the Kish tablet so that HN now has a reference to what is probably the oldest known text to date: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39493201 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39493201 It is dated to around 3500 BC.
- lmpdev 3y agoA similar text from 1919 https://archive.org/embed/graphicmethodsfo00brinrich https://archive.org/embed/graphicmethodsfo00brinrich
- chadbr 3y agoAwesome - it would be great to have a printed version of this.
- a1o 3y agoPage 28 is great as an example! :) https://archive.org/details/graphicpresentat00brinrich/page/28/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/graphicpresentat00brinrich/page/...
- pimlottc 3y agoI would love to see more game reports diagrammed like in the example on the following page.
- keepamovin 3y agoHoly shit. This entire book is interesting. Particularly interesting is Chapter 42 - Three-Dimensional Methods In 1935 they cut out wooden sections to be plane-slices of a 3D volume plot and stacked them together and photographed it!! https://archive.org/details/graphicpresentat00brinrich/page/354/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/graphicpresentat00brinrich/page/...
- echoangle 3y agoThe PDF image quality is much worse than the preview, i hope EPUB is better but for some reason the EPUB download is very slow (~50 KB/s)
- zuminator 3y agoReally? I would say it's about the same quality as the preview. Did you download the full color PDF or the black and white PDF?
- echoangle 3y agoFull color. Look at the sticker on the second page, the right edge and the letters make the difference very obvious. The PDF looks extremely compressed.
- Lammy 3y agoMight indicate poor support for JPEG2000 in Archive's software? That's what you get when you click the download link for "Original" files. Sadly it's not easily readable that way but at least someone could use them to assemble a better PDF with some cropping, rotation, and white-balance: https://i.imgur.com/IdBujgi.png https://i.imgur.com/IdBujgi.png
- the_arun 3y agoHow much of analysis & details have gotten in to this book? Humans have come a long way!!
- __fst__ 3y agoBeautiful book. Amazing how these were produced so neatly before the computer age. There's whole collection of books like this on archive.org under "Graphic methods" https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Graphic+methods%22 https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Graphic+method...
- __mharrison__ 3y agoThis is awesome. A ton of work went into this book. My grandfather was an advertiser/illustrator during this time period. I wonder if he had this book in his basement library...