{"id":9838,"date":"2016-01-22T15:18:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T15:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megaphone.geeb.us\/?p=4670"},"modified":"2016-01-22T15:18:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T15:18:22","slug":"gorgeous-infographics-from-the-19th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/?p=9838","title":{"rendered":"Gorgeous infographics from the 19th century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/media.boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" \/><br \/>\nAt the dawn of the 19th century, naturalist Alexander von Humboldt invented the &#8220;thematic map,&#8221; pioneering infographics through the likes of maps annotated with zoological life, temperature, elevations, and other data meant to present an area&#8217;s &#8220;physical phenomena into one image,&#8221; according to this profile on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/the-exquisite-19th-century-infographics-that-explained-the-history-of-the-natural-world?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura&amp;utm_campaign=3658206aba-Newsletter_1_11_20161_8_2016&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_62ba9246c0-3658206aba-59773825&amp;ct=t(Newsletter_1_11_20161_8_2016)&amp;mc_cid=3658206aba&amp;mc_eid=e1a6719782\">Atlas Obscura<\/a>.<br \/>\nAbove, &#8220;a plate from Atlas of Alexander von Humboldt&#8217;s Kosmos, illustrating the composition of the Earth&#8217;s crust via color-coding.&#8221;<br \/>\nBelow, &#8220;a snowflake of clocks illustrates world time zones, with Dresden at the center. &#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-443033\" src=\"http:\/\/media.boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image-1.jpg\" alt=\"image-1\" width=\"800\" height=\"732\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the dawn of the 19th century, naturalist Alexander von Humboldt invented the &#8220;thematic map,&#8221; pioneering infographics through the likes of maps annotated with zoological life, temperature, elevations, and other data meant to present an area&#8217;s &#8220;physical phenomena into one image,&#8221; according to this profile on Atlas Obscura. Above, &#8220;a plate from Atlas of Alexander [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}