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A Chart of Biography
1765 biographical chart by Joseph Priestley
In 1765, 18th-century British polymathJoseph Priestley published A Chart of Biography and its accompanying prose description as a supplement to his Lectures on History and General Policy.[1] Priestley believed that the chart and A New Chart of History (1769) would allow students to "trace out distinctly the dependence of events to distribute them into such periods and divisions as shall lay the whole claim of past transactions in a just and orderly manner."[2]
The Chart of Biography covers a vast timespan, from 1200 BC to 1800 AD, and includes two thousand names.
Priestley organized his list into six categories: Statesman and Warriors; Divines and Metaphysicians; Mathematicians and Physicians (natural philosophers were placed here); Poets and Artists; Orators and Critics (prose fiction authors were placed here); and Historians and Antiquarians (lawyers were placed here).
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