{"product_id":"2940156105106","title":"Mind's Eye: How One Ancient Latin Invented Our Way to Visualize Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen were family-tree diagrams invented? \u003cstrong\u003eMind's Eye\u003c\/strong\u003e discovers the progenitor of today's graphic timelines and trees in an ancient three-meter chart of history. Hidden in plain sight, this Roman masterpiece has never been honored at book length before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eGreat Stemma\u003c\/em\u003e was not only a vast visual abstraction of the march of time from Creation as far as the birth of Jesus Christ, but also marked a swerve in civilization towards exploiting our visual perception as an extra tool for thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMind's Eye\u003c\/strong\u003e can be read rapidly, by skimming the 117 illustrations and checking out the QR links. Or it can be savored as an 88,000-word narrative in which historian Piggin narrates how he brought this neglected graphic to light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMedieval Latin copies convey only imperfectly the brilliance of the lost original, which represented the colorful characters of the Tanakh as if they were competing pieces on a game-board. Its ageless design led on to a 16th-century craze for genealogy, a bold remake by artists in China and the graphic principles which we use today to interpret events and stories visually.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cernimus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46343221313777,"sku":"2940156105106","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/2940156105106_p0.jpg?v=1765859258","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940156105106","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}