Telling Time

Item sets: The Sphex Club Papers; Jones Memorial Library Manuscripts Collection

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Identifier: JML.MS1133-0369
Barcode: JML.MS1133-0369
Title: Telling Time
Description: Text of a lecture delivered to the Sphex Club in Lynchburg. Nancy Marion's presentation, "Telling Time," delved into the history of time charts and the evolution of methods for charting history, beginning with Eusebius's matrix in the fourth century to modern visual representations. Her talk encompassed various historical and inventive approaches to chronology, from genealogical trees in the Nuremberg Chronicle to innovative 20th-century histograms by John Sparks, highlighting how these methods have evolved to capture and illustrate the passage of time and history.
Date: 7 October 2021
Creator: Marion, Nancy Blackwell
topic: SPHEX Club - lectures; Marion, Nancy Blackwell; History -- Lynchburg, Va.; Time -- charts; Time -- history
Location: Lynchburg, Va.
Digital Format: pdf
Language: English
Publisher: George M. Jones Library Association
Repository: George M. Jones Library Association
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/; George M. Jones Library Association
Rights Holder: Marion, Nancy Blackwell; George M. Jones Library Association