The Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge: (with over 300 beautiful circular artworks, infographics and illustrations from across history)

On this follow-up to his massively common The Ebook of Bushes and Visible Complexity, Manuel Lima takes us on a full of life tour by means of millennia of round data design. 300 detailed and colourful illustrations from world wide cowl an encyclopedic array of subjects–architecture, city planning, high-quality artwork, design, vogue, know-how, faith, cartography, biology, astronomy, and physics, all based mostly on the circle, the common image of unity, perfection, motion, and infinity. 
The Ebook of Circles juxtaposes clay buying and selling tokens utilized by the traditional Sumerians with the long-lasting logos of twentieth-century firms, a chart organizing seven hundred Nintendo choices with a Victorian board recreation based mostly on the travels of Nellie Bly, and a visible evaluation of Stanley Kubrick’s movie The Shining with early celestial charts that positioned the earth on the heart of the universe, amongst a wealth of different elegant and intriguing strategies for displaying data.

Lima supplies an authoritative historical past of the circle in addition to a singular taxonomy of twenty-one forms of circle diagrams, rounding out this visible feast for infographics fans.

From the Writer

‘A ravishing tour’

-Nature Journal

‘The standard circle will get its due’

-Publishers Weekly

‘Celebrates the wonder and flexibility of circles’

-BBC Focus Journal

Pattern visuals from The Ebook of Circles:

Nameless Bas-relief of the Dendera Zodiac, 50 BC

Vivant Denon’s drawing of the bas-relief planisphere featured within the ceiling of a chapel in the principle temple of the goddess Hathor at Dendera, a temple advanced in Higher Egypt, constructed round 2250 BC.

Petri dish portray particulars (Petri Tasks), 2009–current

Portray by San Francisco based mostly artist Klari Reis, who’s impressed by microscopic natural mobile imagery and pure reactions to create photos that discover our advanced relationship with immediately’s biotechnology trade.

Jan Schwochow (Golden Part Graphics), How We Surf, 2012

Comparability of on-line utilization amongst completely different audiences, organized by demographic classes (e.g., gender, age, and training degree) and commerce sectors.

Jussi Ängeslevä and Ross Cooper, Final Clock, 2002

An set up that shows the historical past and rhythm of a bodily area. The clock fingers obtain stay video feeds from varied sources, resembling a distant streaming digital camera or a direct native TV sign.

Barbara Hahn and Christine Zimmermann, Staff Diagnostic Survey, 2008

Survey 2008 Chart ensuing from a scientific examine on the work and functioning of multidisciplinary groups, during which topics evaluated thirty points of their staff’s efficiency on a scale of 1 to 5.

Pietro Vesconte, Mappa mundi (world map), 1320

Map oriented with the east on high; seas are proven in inexperienced and land as white. Pietro Vesconte was a Genoese cartographer and geographer whose world maps are thought of to be a number of the most geographically correct of the time.

Writer ‏ : ‎ Princeton Architectural Press; Illustrated version (Could 2, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1616895284
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1616895280
Merchandise Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.76 kilos
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.8 x 1 x 10.8 inches