![]() Adams’ starting date of all history comes from the Irish Archbishop James Ussher, who, in 1654 declared after years of study that the earth was created on “nightfall on 22 October 4004 BC.” (Now that’s certainty!) ![]() At the same time he presents a detailed description of archaeological history “after the flood,” from Stone Age tools through the earliest civilizations, mentioning major battles, inventions, philosophers, and advances in science. The Synchronological Chart is a great work of outsider thinking and a template for autodidact study it attempts to rise above the station of a mere historical summary and to draw a picture of history rich enough to serve as a textbook in itself.Īdams was a voracious reader and a good Christian, and in the top half of the chart he attempts to untangle the spaghetti-like genealogy of Adam and Eve’s children from Abel (“The First Martyr”) through to Solomon (whose temple looks very Gothic), all the way through to Jesus and beyond. Adams’ Synchronological Chart of Universal History outlines the evolution of mankind from Adam and Eve to 1871, the year of its first edition.Ī recreation can be found and closely examined at the David Rumsey Map Collection, which allows you to zoom in on any part of the original timeline, which stretched to 23 feet in length and was designed for schoolhouses as a one-stop shop for all of history.Īs Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton describe it in their book Cartographies of Time: ![]() ![]() A beautiful early example of visualizing the flow of history, Sebastian C. ![]()
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