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Johann Amos Comenius published his Orbis sensualium pictus
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William Playfair developed pictorial statistics for showing the balance of trade in his Statistical Breviary
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Otto Neurath born
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Michael George Mulhall published the Dictionary of Statistics which applies pictorial statistics
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- engineer Willard C. Brinton publishes Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts in which he advocated the use of sets of symbols to represent quantities.
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Neurath and Arntz develop their ‘ Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics ’ , which was later renamed ISOTYPE (International System of Typographic Picture Education)
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Marie Reidemeiste ‘ transformed ’numerical data into sketches of pictorial statistics
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Publication Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft. Bildstatistisches Elementarwerk
The most comprehensive representation of the pictorial work of the Viennese team -
Neurath moves GWM from Austria to the Netherlands, and formed the ‘International Foundation for the Promotion of Visual Education’
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International Picture Language: The First Rule of Isotype published
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Basic by Isotype was published
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Neurath fled Netherlands for England when the Nazis invaded, while Arntz remained and worked illustrating the statistical yearbooks of the Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics to 1966
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British ISOTYPE institute was founded
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Neurath Dies
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political climate in the Western world became unfavourable for further development of ISOTYPE because of the cold war
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Nigel Holmes refers to ISOTYPE in his book
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Exhibitions featuring ISOTYPE have been held throughout Europe
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Actualisation started on ISOTYPE charts from the 1930s
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ISOTYPE representation not happening; the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication of the University of Reading launched their ‘ ISOTYPE revisited ’project
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ISOTYPE has become obsolete in the new era. The Internet Era