Featured on PDR in the collection Visualizing History: The Polish System

How does one visualize history and chart time? Is it a line, moving forever outward in one direction? A Grecian temple, as Emma Willard envisioned, with Ionic columns representing centuries, receding from view toward a vanishing point at the world’s origin? Or could it be a corkscrew ascending upward, allowing us to look down from our present position into past events similar to our own?

Illustration of a “chronological constellation” from "the century of Constantine the Great"

Artist

Antoni Jażwiński

Date

1835

From

Méthode polonaise


Underlying Rights

Public Domain Worldwide

Digital Rights

No Additional Rights


Image Size

1287 x 1326 Higher res available?

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