9781616895280-1616895284-The Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge: (with over 300 beautiful circular artworks, infographics and illustrations from across history)

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

ISBN-13: 9781616895280
ISBN-10: 1616895284
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Manuel Lima
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Hardcover 272 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781616895280
ISBN-10: 1616895284
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Manuel Lima
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Hardcover 272 pages

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The Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge: (with over 300 beautiful circular artworks, infographics and illustrations from across history) (ISBN-13: 9781616895280 and ISBN-10: 1616895284), written by authors Manuel Lima, was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2017. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Decorative Arts & Design (History, Arts History & Criticism, Conceptual, Arts Other, Communication, Words, Language & Grammar , Communication & Media Studies, Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge: (with over 300 beautiful circular artworks, infographics and illustrations from across history) (Hardcover, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Decorative Arts & Design books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $6.84.

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In this follow-up to his hugely popular The Book of Trees and Visual Complexity, Manuel Lima takes us on a lively tour through millennia of circular information design. Three hundred detailed and colorful illustrations from around the world cover an encyclopedic array of subjects--architecture, urban planning, fine art, design, fashion, technology, religion, cartography, biology, astronomy, and physics, all based on the circle, the universal symbol of unity, perfection, movement, and infinity.
The Book of Circles juxtaposes clay trading tokens used by the ancient Sumerians with the iconic logos of twentieth-century corporations, a chart organizing seven hundred Nintendo offerings with a Victorian board game based on the travels of Nellie Bly, and a visual analysis of Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining with early celestial charts that placed the earth at the center of the universe, among a wealth of other elegant and intriguing methods for displaying information.

Lima provides an authoritative history of the circle as well as a unique taxonomy of twenty-one varieties of circle diagrams, rounding out this visual feast for infographics enthusiasts.

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