Synchronoptic view

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A synchronoptic view is a graphic display of a number of entities as they proceed through time. A synchronoptic view can be used for many purposes, but is best suited as visual displays of history. A number of related timelines can be drawn on a single chart, showing which events and lives are contemporary and which are unconnected.

A synchronoptic view has important educational advantages. Visible information is much more easily learned, than when it is presented only in pure text form. History is an ideal subject for a synchronoptic view. Multiple timelines are able to show how events interacted. Multiple lifelines can show which people were contemporaries. (See example)

A combination of maps is also synchronoptic when it displays successive moments in time.

Etymology

The concept in question is made visual — hence optic. The elements are displayed synchronously: i.e., which events in one area happened at the same time as events in another seemingly unrelated area. Thus synchron-optic.

Synchronoptic also means visible at the same time", or "with parallel views". i.e., The user gets a view of all the information in one go.

Carte chronographique

Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg (1709–1779) was the first to develop a synchronoptical visualisation with his Chronographie universelle & details qui en dependent pour la Chronologie & les Genealogies (1753) abbreviated to Carte chronographique.^[1] The chronograph chart consisted of 35 prints which were designed to be stuck together in a row, enabling 6,500 years to be represented in 6.5 metres (21 ft).^[1] The horizontal axis representing the passage of time was consistent throughout, but the vertical axis was varied depending on the categories Barbeu-Dubourg considered relevant for that period of history.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Schmidt-Burkhardt, Astrit. "Learning in the Age of Enlightenment". georgemaciunas.com. George Maciunas Foundation Inc. Retrieved 18 March 2019.

External links

Hyper History Online. A good example of a synchronoptic view of history
Adams Synchronological Chart

Calendar eras	Human Era Ab urbe condita Anno Domini / Common Era Anno Mundi Bosporan era Bostran era Byzantine era Seleucid era Era of Caesar (Iberia) Before present Hijri Egyptian Sothic cycle Hindu units of time (Yuga) Mesoamerican Long Count Short Count Tzolk'in Haab'
Regnal year	Anka year Canon of Kings English and British regnal year Lists of kings Limmu
Era names	Chinese Japanese Korean Vietnamese

Calendars

Pre-Julian / Julian	Pre-Julian Roman Original Julian Proleptic Julian Revised Julian
Gregorian	Gregorian Proleptic Gregorian Old Style and New Style dates Adoption of the Gregorian calendar Dual dating
Astronomical	Lunisolar (Hebrew, Hindu) Solar Lunar (Islamic) Astronomical year numbering
Others	Chinese sexagenary cycle Geologic Calendar Iranian ISO week date Mesoamerican Maya Aztec Winter count New Earth Time

Astronomic time

Geologic time

Concepts	Deep time Geological history of Earth Geological time units
Standards	Global Standard Stratigraphic Age (GSSA) Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP)
Methods	Chronostratigraphy Geochronology Isotope geochemistry Law of superposition Luminescence dating Samarium–neodymium dating

Chronological
dating

Absolute dating	Amino acid racemisation Archaeomagnetic dating Dendrochronology Ice core Incremental dating Lichenometry Paleomagnetism Radiometric dating Lead–lead Potassium–argon Radiocarbon Uranium–lead Tephrochronology Luminescence dating Thermoluminescence dating
Relative dating	Fluorine absorption Nitrogen dating Obsidian hydration Seriation Stratigraphy