Chronographics: April 2016

Thursday, 21 April 2016

Dr Florian Kräutli

A quick note to celebrate the award yesterday of PhD to Florian, who has worked so intensively for three and a half years on his investigations of critical chronographics. No amendments, no changes to be made - an immediate pass.

Dr Kevin Walker, Prof Sue Walker, Dr Florian Kräutli, Prof Paolo Ciuccarelli, Prof Stephen Boyd Davis, Dr Michael Selway. Photo: Delfina Fantini van Ditmar

My thanks to...

Dr Kevin Walker, head of Information Experience Design, RCA and chair of the exam board
Professor Sue Walker, of Reading University, external examiner
Paolo Ciuccarelli, of Politecnico di Milano, external examiner
Dr Michael Selway and Dr Michael Stapleton of System Simulation Ltd, external supervisors
Prof Ashley Hall and Prof Miles Pennington for providing a scholarly ‘home’ for Florian in Innovation Design Engineering
... and of course Florian himself for his deep engagement with a subject to which I am so committed!

Florian’s PhD was funded by EPSRC grant EP/J502169/1 and System Simulation Ltd.

References

Aldridge, Alfred Owen. 1951. Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, a French disciple of Benjamin Franklin. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 95(4). 331-392.
Barbeu-Dubourg, Jacques. 1753. Carte chronographique. Paper roll in scroll case, 40 cm x 16.5 m. Princeton University Library call number: D11 .B37 1753
Barbeu-Dubourg, Jacques. 1753. Chronographie, ou description des temps…. Paris. Photocopy in the Rare Books Collection, Princeton University Library, from an original of the explanatory booklet for the chart (q.v.) in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Princeton University Library call number: D11 .B372 1753a.
Barbeu-Dubourg, Jacques. 1753. Chronography or Depiction of Time. Paris. Explanatory booklet for Chart, trans. Stephen Boyd Davis, October 2009. [PDF file]
Barbeu-Dubourg, Jacques. 1838. (An anonymous second edition.) Chronographie, ou description des temps, ... Nouvelle édition, contenant des additions importantes, etc. British Library shelfmark: 798.l.19.
Blair, John. 1779. The chronology and history of the world, from the creation to the year of Christ, 1779. London.
Diderot, Denis. Chronological (machine). The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Stephen Boyd Davis. Ann Arbor: Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library, 2009. Web. Accessed 19 September 2009. [link] Trans. of "Chronologique (machine.)," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 3. Paris, 1753.
Ferguson, Stephen. 1991. The 1753 Carte chronographique of Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg. Princeton University Library Chronicle. (Winter 1991).
Priestley, Joseph. 1765. A Chart of Biography. J. Johnson: Saint Paul’s Church Yard, London. British Library shelfmark: 611.l.19.
Priestley, Joseph. 1769. A New Chart of History. J. Johnson, Paternoster Row, London. British Library Shelfmark: Maps 999.(137.)
Priestley, Joseph. 1778. Description of a Chart of Biography. 7th edn. J. Johnson. London. [PDF file]
Rosenberg, Daniel and Grafton, Anthony. 2010. Cartographies of Time. Princeton Architectural Press, New York. ISBN 9781568987637.

Chronographics

Thursday, 21 April 2016

Dr Florian Kräutli

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