Timelines
Time on all scales
Chronozoom represents time at all scales from the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago to the present
It is available free at http://eps.berkeley.edu/~saekow/chronozoom/
Courtesy Wikimedia Commons – Orangeboxes2 – Accessed 21 April 2017
Introduction – Timelines
Just as plants assimilate light to produce life-sustaining food energy, so collective learning can be used to help humanity to adapt, survive, and flourish.
Timelines, when well-researched, provide ordered knowledge in a condensed format, a quick historical snapshot and aide-memoire for a particular topic. Timelines can be subjected to endless modification in scale of resolution, their degree of utility depending on the purpose for which they were compiled whether long and detailed or short and simple. I have included information at a resolution that I have found helpful for the construction of this web site.
At the time of writing (2017) the number of timelines available on the internet is rapidly increasing but few are satisfactory for the serious student. The timelines presented here I’d like to consider as a ‘work in progress‘ and I’d welcome any assistance in making them more complete and useful. No doubt there are far more user-friendly ways of presenting this kind of information on the web.
The Chronometric Revolution
There has, since WWII, developed a little-acknowledged Chronometric Revolution addressing the dating of events that have occurred over long-term history. This applies most obviously to the geological and biological evolution time scales.
As late as the 19th century the Bible was regarded as a reliable historical document – the age of the Earth estimated by theologians at just a few thousand years. ‘ . . . at the end of the nineteenth century it was still impossible to assign reliable absolute dates to any events before the appearance of the first written records’ but ‘There now exist no serious intellectual or scientific or philosophical barriers to a broad unification of historical scholarship’[1] Darwin was uncertain of the time-scale over which the community of life had evolved. In biology the dating of major evolutionary events, human migrations etc., is increasing daily through the use of genetic markers.
Improved dating techniques have brought science and mainstream academic history much closer as disciplines. The accumulation of Big Data and increasing interest in interdisciplinary studies will no doubt improve connections in the web of interdisciplinary knowledge that is linked by dates.
Chronozoom – timeline at all scales from the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago to the present
Courtesy Wikipedia Commons – Orangeboxes2 – Accessed 21 April 2017
Timeline links
Click on the following links to access timelines on these topics which are discussed on this web site.
Agraria
Alexander von Humboldt
Ancient Greek thinkers
Ancient human migrations
Australian 19C garden literature
Australian Cultivar Registration Authority
Australian learned societies
Baudin in Australia
Big History Thresholds
British 19C garden literature
British prehistory
Botanical art
Chronometry
Climate change
Coffee
Coinage – Australian
Coinage – World
Darwin, Charles
Darwin on the Beagle
Domestication (animals)
Domestication (plants)
Environmental history
Epidemics
Ferdinand Mueller
Globalization
Herbals
Horticulture
Industria
Informatia
Informatia2
Josephine Beauharnais
Language
Linnaeus
Mathematics
Middle Ages
Normans
Philip Miller
Philosophers
Plant domestication
Printed herbals
Psychology
Roman Britain
Robert Brown
Rubber
Science
Scientific Revolution
Spices
Tea
Technology
Teleology
Tobacco
Transport & Communication
First published on the internet – 1 March 2019
Four phases of human history. Image courtesy Rob Cross, January 2019
