Infographic(s) of the Day: How We've Mapped Time Through the Ages

In the poetically titled new book Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline (Princeton Architectural Press), authors Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton plot what time has looked like (in the West any way), from early tables on Christianity and world history to Mark Twain's life-sized time line of the British monarchy -- mocked up, apparently, in his own driveway. It's, in one sense, a fascinating cultural tale, as infographics shifted away from an almost exclusive focus on the Bible...