Or…‘500 years of modern science, reason & critical thinking via the medium of gross over simplification, dodgy demarcation and a very tiny font’.
Yes, it’s yet another example of London’s famous Tube map being co-opted for other purposes (see also my own effort). "The map ":https://crispian-jago.blogspot.com/2010/08/modern-science-map.htmlcomes courtesy of Crispian ’I’ve got a Carl Sagan Tshirt’ Jago and shows great scientists and thinkers (not mutually exclusive) in the form of a public transport map. The great spiral of achievement starts in the centre, with 16th Century folk like Galileo and Kepler, and corkscrews out to modern greats such as Frank Drake, Stephen Hawking and, erm, Brian Cox.
As always with such things, the fun is in the detail. A dotted brown line, normally used to indicate a patchy train service, is here used to illustrate the closure of alchemy following the Enlightenment. And many scientists straddle multiple ‘lines’, such as Newton who has one foot in that closed off Alchemy branch line.
Awesome stuff, and I can’t believe I didn’t think of it myself. And I have to thank my old friend the Tube blogger Annie Mole for the tip-off.