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Cartographies of Time: A Visual History of the Timeline
Over the millennia, man has developed three ways of thinking about time: chaotic, cyclical, and linear. The first was the dominant view of primitive man, the second of ancient and traditional civilizations, and the third of the modern West, especially America.
William Strauss • The Fourth Turning
So how might we show people where they've been in more helpful and nuanced ways?
Historical Trails
Thus, what we see is the coexistence, sometimes agonistic and sometimes interpenetrated, of two kinds of historical time or the past in a narrative in which the linear concept struggles to break free of Christian virtue. It was not until the eighteenth century in Europe that this relationship became inverted.