Further reading

  • Euler, Leonhard. Lettres à une princesse d’Allemagne sur divers sujets de physique et de philosophie. St Petersburg, 1768–1772. Letters 102 to 108 deal with syllogisms using circles.
  • Venn, John. On the diagrammatic and mechanical representation of propositions and reasonings. The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, 10, 1880, pp. 1–18.
  • Peirce, Charles S. Collected Papers, vol. 4. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1933. On diagrams and diagrammatic reasoning.
  • Clagett, Marshall (ed.). Nicole Oresme and the Medieval Geometry of Qualities and Motions. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968.
  • Playfair, William. The Commercial and Political Atlas. London, 1786.
  • Tufte, Edward R. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Cheshire: Graphics Press, 1983.
  • Huff, Darrell. How to Lie with Statistics. New York: W. W. Norton, 1954.
  • Cleveland, William S. The Elements of Graphing Data. Monterey: Wadsworth, 1985.
  • Argand, Jean-Robert. Essai sur une manière de représenter les quantités imaginaires dans les constructions géométriques. Paris, 1806.
  • Nahin, Paul J. An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √−1. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
  • Nelsen, Roger B. Proofs Without Words: Exercises in Visual Thinking. Washington: Mathematical Association of America, 1993.
  • Abbott, Edwin A. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. London: Seeley, 1884.
  • Garland, Ken. Mr Beck’s Underground Map. Harrow Weald: Capital Transport, 1994.

Image sources

Image Source Licence
Exports and imports with Africa, by Playfair (1786) Wikimedia Commons public domain
John Snow’s cholera map (1854) Wikimedia Commons public domain
Florence Nightingale’s diagram of the causes of mortality (1858) Wikimedia Commons public domain
The Russian campaign, by Charles Minard (1869) Wikimedia Commons public domain
Title page of Argand’s essay (1806) Wikimedia Commons public domain
Königsberg in 1652, engraving by Merian’s heirs Wikimedia Commons public domain
Title page of Flatland, American edition of 1885 Wikimedia Commons public domain
Plan of a house in Flatland, drawing by Abbott Wikimedia Commons public domain

The diagrams of Euler’s circles, Oresme’s latitudes and the staircase sum were produced for this book and contain no text, so they serve all four languages. The interactive figures (the scale of a chart, Argand’s plane and the hypercube) work in all four languages of the site. The record of the downloaded images, with the hash of each file, is in data/semiotica_imagens.json.

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