The Pattern of Knowledge *

The Invention of Knowledge by Art Bardige
SYMBOLS UNIVERSALS SYMBOLS UNIVERSALS OBJECTS ENVIRONMENTS ARTIFACTS
Singular Plural Singular Plural Singular Plural Singular Plural Singular Plural Singular Plural Singular
tools
tombs
cave paintings
bone markings
spoken language
c.40000 arithmetic
hieroglyphic writing
cities
calendars
inventories
stone buildings
stone sculptures
money
ziggurats
bronze tools
c.3000
c.3000
c.3000
c.3000
c.3000
c.3000
c.3000
c.3000
c.3000
c.3000
Thales-of-Miletus
Anaximander
Solon
Polis
Black Figure Vase
Doric Order
Archaic Art
Kouros
Aesop
Lao-Tse
Deuteronomy
Zoroaster
624-546
611-547
c.640-?
c.600
c.600
c.600
c.600
c.600
619-564
604-517
638-609
660-583
Socrates
Democratus
Euripedes
Hippocrates
Parthenon
Protagoras
Thucydides
Dying Niobid
Hippias
469-399
460-360
485-406
460-377
448-432
480-411
460-404
450-440
460-?
tribal-Europe c.400-800 Alcuin
Charlemagne
Aachen Chapel
Holy-Roman-Empire
Carolingian script
Coinage
Bureaucracy
Legal Codes
1001 Nights
735-?
r.768-814
792-805
c.800
c.800
c.800
c.800
c.800
c.800
Romanesque
city-towns
guilds
Pope Gregory
Church of St. Etienne
free-standing-sculptures
Romanesque Painting
College of Cardinals
Bayeau Tapestry
c.1050
c.1050
c.1050
1073
c.1062
c.1050
c.1050
1059
c.1073-1083
Roger Bacon
Parliament
St.Urban-in-Troyes
Albertus Magnus
Thomas Acquinas
"Parzival"
1214-1294
1268
c.1261-1275
1193-1280
1225-1274
c.1250
DaVinci
Erasmus
Machiavelli
Durer
Copernicus
Michelangelo
More
Luther
Paracelsus
Bramante
Raphael
1452-1519
1466-1536
1469-1527
1471-1525
1473-1543
1475-1564
1478-1535
1483-1553
1493-1541
c.1444-1514
fl.1510
Huygens
Locke
Leeuwenhoek
Newton
Leibniz
Bernoulli
Halley
Defoe
Swift
Watteau
Berkeley
1629-1695
1632-1704
1632-1723
1642-1727
1646-1716
1654-1705
1656-1742
1660-1731
1667-1743
1684-1721
1685-1753
Darwin
Dickens
Victoria
Mendel
Pasteur
Tolstoy
Maxwell
Dedekind
Manet
Carroll
Ruskin
Rodin
1809-1882
1812-1870
1819-1901
1822-1884
1822-1895
1828-1910
1831-1879
1831-1916
1832-1883
1832-1898
1840-1917
1840-1917
Pavlov
Poincare
Freud
Shaw
Conrad
Planck
Bergson
Dewey
Hilbert
Curie
Matisse
Wright
Russell
1849-1936
1854-1912
1854-1939
1856-1950
1857-1924
1858-1947
1859-1941
1859-1952
1862-1943
1867-1934
1869-1954
1869-1959
1872-1970
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totemism
kinship systems

Zoser-Step-Pyramid
pyramids at Giza
Hammurabi
symbolic cuneiform
husband&wife-statues
c.2650
c.2500
c.1750

c.2600
Pythagoras
Confucius
Buddha
Psiax Vases
569-500
551-479
563-483
c.525
Lysippus
Plato (early)
Archtas
Theaeteus
Eudoxus
fl.370
429-347
428-347
415-369
408-355




Anselm
Rashi
Crusades
Scholasticism
troubadours
1033-1109
1040-1105
1095->
1100->
c.1100
Meister Eckhart
Pisano
c.1270-1327
fl.1258-78
Tartaglia
Calvin
Versalius
Tintorello
Pieter-Bruegel
Council of Trent
1500-1557
1509-1553
1514-1564
1518-1594
1525-1569
1543-1563
Bach
Voltaire
Bernoulli
Hartley
Franklin
Fielding
Linnaeus
Euler
Johnson
Hume
Rousseau
Diderot
D'Alembert
1685-1750
1694-1778
1700-1782
1705-1790
1706-1790
1707-1754
1707-1778
1707-1783
1709-1784
1711-1776
1712-1778
1713-1772
1717-1783
Brahms
Whistler
Mendeleev
Degas
Twain
Monet
Renoir
Boltzman
1833-1897
1834-1903
1834-1907
1834-1917
1835-1910
1840-1929
1841-1919
1844-1906
Minkowski
Kandinsky
Wright
Rutherford
Mondrian
Jung
Watson
Einstein
Picasso
Eddington
Kafka
Malinowski
Bohr
1864-1909
1866-1944
1869-1959
1871-1937
1872-1944
1875-1961
1878-1958
1879-1955
1881-1973
1882-1944
1883-1924
1884-1942
1885-1962


initiation rights
pottery

carved temples
Temple of Hatshepsut
c.1500
c.1480
Heraclitus
Dying Warrior
Herakles
Kore (Chios?)
fl.500
c.490
c.490
c.520
Plato-Republic-Bk-7
Mausolus
Mausoleum
Temple of Athena
429-347
c.359
c.359-351
c.360






Dante
Giotto
Boccaccio
1265-1321
1275-1337
1313-1375
Montaigne
Elizabeth
Gilbert
Vieta
El Greco
Brahe
Cervantes
Stevin
Napier
Shakespeare
1533-1592
1533-1603
1540-1603
1540-1603
1541-1601
1546-1601
1547-1616
1548-1620
1550-1617
1564-1616
Smith
Kant
Cavendish
Priestley
Coulomb
Lagrange
Haydn
Gibbon
Lavoisier
David
Goya
Goethe
Mozart
1723-1790
1724-1804
1731-1810
1733-1804
1736-1806
1736-1813
1737-1809
1737-1894
1743-1794
1748-1828
1748-1828
1749-1832
1756-1801
Rodin
Klein
1840-1917
1849-1925
Proust
Buber
Einstein
Joyce
Kafka
Le Courbusier
Schroedinger
Heidegger
Fitzgerald
Piaget
Heisenberg
Bauhaus
1871-1929
1878-1965
1879-1955
1882-1941
1883-1924
1886-1965
1887-1961
1889-1976
1896-1940
1896-1980
1901-1976
1918-1932




SYMBOLS UNIVERSALS SYMBOLS UNIVERSALS OBJECTS ENVIRONMENTS ARTIFACTS


Singular Plural Singular Plural Singular Plural Singular Plural Singular Plural Singular Plural Singular
shamans
kings
gods
Black Elk
priests
chiefdoms
Anasazi
farming
towns

Akhenaten
Assyrians
great empires
c.1365
Parmenides
Classical Art
Red Figure Vases
Aeschylus
c.520-450


525-456
Aristotle
Epicuras
Euclid
Library-of-Alexandria
Praxiteles
Zeno the Stoic
384-322
342-270
330-275
c.300
c.390-330
c.330-?


Feudal Manor c.900 Abelard
Abbot Suger
Gothic Architecture
Abbey-Church-of-St.-Denis
Age of Chivalry
Portrait of a Physician
Geoffrey of Monmouth
1079-1142
1081-1151
c.1137
1140-1144

c.1160
? -1154
Ockham
Petrarch
Oresmi
Buridan
Chaucer
1295-1347
1304-1374
1323-1382
c.1300-1385
1343-1400
Bacon
Galileo
Caravagio
Monteverdi
Kepler
Rubins
Donne
Harvey
Grotius
Poisson
Hobbes
1561-1626
1564-1642
1573-1610
1567-1643
1571-1630
1577-1640
1573-1631
1578-1651
1583-1645
1584-1665
1588-1679
LaPlace
Rumsford
Malthus
Dalton
Fourier
Beethoven
Hegel
Owen
Young
Ampere
Gauss
Oersted
Ingre
1749-1827
1753-1814
1766-1834
1766-1844
1768-1830
1770-1827
1770-1831
1771-1858
1773-1829
1775-1836
1777-1855
1777-1858
1780-1851
Mach
Gibbs
Cezanne
Peirce
Zola
Neitzsche
Boltzman
Edison
Bell
Eastman
1838-1916
1839-1903
1839-1906
1839-1914
1840-1902
1844-1900
1844-1906
1847-1913
1847-1922
1854-1932
Wertheimer
Keynes
Weyl
Wittgenstein
Chadwick
Vygotsky
Calder
Dirac
Fermi
Godel
Yukawa
Bourbaki
Wilder
1880-1943
1883-1946
1885-1955
1889-1951
1891-1974
1896-1934
1898-1976
1901-
1901-1954
1906-1978
1907-
fl.1938
1897-1975


Trobriand trade
animal domestication
trading
early settlements
Stonehenge
kinship systems

Moses
10 commandments
alphabetic writing
large scale trading
c.1200
c.1100
c.1000
Empedocles
Diogonies
c.494-434
Archimedes
Eratosthenes
Apollonius
Aristarchus
Christ
Pantheon
Lucretius
Virgil
Horace
Livy
Ovid
287-212
276-195
262-200
c.310-230
4B.C.-29A.D.
25A.D.
96-52
70-19
65-8
59-17A.D.
43-18A.D.




Maimonides
St. Francis of Assisi
University of Paris
Magna Carta
St. Dominic
1135-1204
1182-1226
c.1200
1215
1170-1221
Brunelleshi
Van Eyck
Donatello
Fra Angelico
Joan of Arc
The Master of Flemalle
1379-1446
1385-1441
1386-1446
1387-1458
fl.1431
fl.1425-28
Desargues
Poussin
Descartes
Bernini
Cromwell
Fermat
Torricelli
1593-1662
c.1593-1665
1596-1650
1598-1680
1599-1658
1601-1665
1608-1648
Schopenhauer
Gericult
Faraday
Carnot
Schubert
Compte
Delacroix
Hugo
Berlioz
Tocqueville
Hamilton
Galois
Kierkegaard
1788-1860
1791-1824
1791-1867
1796-1832
1797-1828
1798-1857
1798-1863
1802-1885
1803-1869
1805-1859
1805-1865
1811-1832
1813-1855
Gibbs
W. James
H. James
Cantor
Gauguin
Michelson
Hertz
Sullivan
Seurat
Debussey
Hilbert
Lautrec
1839-1903
1842-1910
1843-1916
1845-1918
1848-1903
1852-1931
1857-1894
1858-1917
1859-1891
1862-1918
1862-1943
1864-1901
Pasternak
Weiner
Erikson
Orwell
Von-Neumann
Skinner
Pauling
Levi-Strauss
Pollock
Crick
Chomsky
Watson
Feynman
1890-1960
1894-1964
1902-1994
1903-1950
1903-1957
1904-1989
1907-1994
1908-
1912-1956
1916-
1928-
1928-
1928-1992


farming
wheel pottery
metal working
pictographs
bronze

Homer
Hebrew Prophets
coinage
fl.750-700
fl.700
c.700-650
Anaxagoras
Sophocles
Zeno
Herodotus
c.500-428
496-406
495-435
485-425
Ptolemy
Column of Trajan
Plotinus
Augustine
Galen
Diophantus
Gospel
Arch of Constantine
Pappus
Simplicius
100-168
106-113
205-270
354-430
c.130-201
c.250
c.100
312-315
c.350
?-529




Fibonacci
Grosseteste
Frederich II
Henry II
Chartre Cathedral
1175-1250
1175-1253
1198-1250
1154-1189
c.1194
Piero della Francesco
Castagno
Bosch
Bottocelli
Lorenzo DiMedici
Savanarola
Gutenburg
1410-1492
fl.1445-50
1450-1516
c.1480
c.1480
1449-1492
fl.1446-50
1400-1468?
Rembrandt
Milton
Colbert
Pascal
Boyle
Vermeer
Spinoza
Hooke
1606-1669
1608-1674
1619-1683
1623-1662
1627-1691
1632-1675
1632-1677
1635-1703
Dickens
Mayer
Boole
Thoreau
Bronte
Marx
Joule
Courbet
Melville
Clausius
Kelvin
Riemann
1812-1870
1814-1878
1815-1864
1817-1862
1818-1848
1818-1883
1818-1889
1819-1877
1819-1899
1822-1888
1824-1907
1826-1866
Becqueral
Lie
Roentgen
Van Gogh
Lorentz
Wilde
Poincare
Thomson
Conrad
Durkheim
Checkov
Kipling
1832-1908
1842-1909
1845-1923
1853-1890
1853-1928
1854-1900
1854-1912
1856-1940
1857-1924
1858-1917
1860-1904
1865-1936
Piaget
Michener
Solzhenitsyn
Kuhn
Gell-Mann
Doctorov
Vonnegut
Gould
Hawking
1896-1980
1907-
1918-
1922-
1929-
1931-
1922-
1941-
1942-