Synchronoptic view
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A synchronoptic view is a graphic display of a number of entities as they proceed through time. A synchronoptic view can be used for many purposes, but is best suited as visual displays of history. A number of related timelines can be drawn on a single chart, showing which events and lives are contemporary and which are unconnected.
A synchronoptic view has important educational advantages. Visible information is much more easily learned, than when it is presented only in pure text form. History is an ideal subject for a synchronoptic view. Multiple timelines are able to show how events interacted. Multiple lifelines can show which people were contemporaries.
([http://www.hyperhistory.com/chart/section.html See example])
A combination of maps is also synchronoptic when it displays successive moments in time.
Etymology
The concept in question is made visual — hence optic.
The elements are displayed synchronously: i.e., which events in one area happened at the same time as events in another seemingly unrelated area.
Thus synchron-optic.
Synchronoptic also means visible at the same time", or "with parallel views". i.e., The user gets a view of all the information in one go.
Carte chronographique
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Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg (1709–1779) was the first to develop a synchronoptical visualisation with his Chronographie universelle & details qui en dependent pour la Chronologie & les Genealogies (1753) abbreviated to Carte chronographique.{{cite web|last1=Schmidt-Burkhardt |first1=Astrit |title=Learning in the Age of Enlightenment |url=http://georgemaciunas.com/exhibitions/knowledge-as-art-chance-computability-and-improving-education-thomas-bayes-alan-turing-george-maciunas/george-maciunas/maciunas-learning-machine-learning-in-the-age-of-enlightenment-by-astrit-schmidt-burkhardt/|website=georgemaciunas.com |publisher=George Maciunas Foundation Inc. |access-date=18 March 2019}} The chronograph chart consisted of 35 prints which were designed to be stuck together in a row, enabling 6,500 years to be represented in {{convert|6.5|m}}. The horizontal axis representing the passage of time was consistent throughout, but the vertical axis was varied depending on the categories Barbeu-Dubourg considered relevant for that period of history.
See also
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External links
- [http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html Hyper History Online]. A good example of a synchronoptic view of history
- [https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/adams_sebastian_c_1825_1898_/ Adams Synchronological Chart]
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