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| "The Temple of Time" (1846) by Emma Willard Source (Cartography Associates: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) |
Emma Willard (1787–1870) was a leading feminist educator whose maps of time laid the groundwork for the charts and infographics of today.
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| "Picture of Nations; or Perspective Sketch of the Course of Empire" (1836) by Emma Willard Source (Cartography Associates: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). |
Her history and geography textbooks exposed a generation of students to innovative and creative pictures of information that sought to translate big data into manageable visual forms.
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