How to Sky (our highlights are in green)
How to Ski by the French Method by Emile Allais, with photos and layout by Pierre Boucher, Editions Fleche Publishers, Paris, 1947.
In our opinion one of the most complete exemple of text synsemically displayed. A contemporary “synsemic masterpiece”.
In this picture all the graphic “tools” are used as writing elements, without distinction and separation between pictures, alphanumeric characters, graphic elements.
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Tagged Diagrams, Infographics, Information design, Synsemic artifacts, Visual language
This is a page from “Letters of Euler to a German Princess, on Different Subjects in Physics and Philosophy”, written by Leonhard Euler.
Which part is the illustration, and which is the main text? As you can see the demonstration of Eulero is strongly based on the succession of graphics elements.
In the first printed version (in french) it is possible to see how deeper was the relation between alphabetic text and diagrammatic text. It could be interesting to see which was the relation between elements in the original manuscript.
Leonardo Romei & Luciano Perondi
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Tagged Diagrammatical reasoning, Diagrams, Euler Diagrams, Leonhard Euler, Scientific writing
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