History in detail.
The huge and impressive twenty-three-foot long chart from 1881 below was created by Sebastian C. Adams and shows 5,885 years of world history, from 4004 B.C. to 1881 A.D.
Rosenberg and Grafton in ‘Cartographies of Time’ say that as a timeline, Adams’ Synchronological Chart ‘was ninetheenth-century America’s surpassing achievement in complexity and synthetic power.’
Indeed, it did synthesize everything from Adam to Zelda (almost).
Click image to zoom in and scroll:
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