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INFLUENCE STAR CHART

Constellation Map

Twenty-six centuries of Western thought as a single sky. The horizontal axis is time; each epoch holds its own band of sky. The lines are influences. Hover a star to light its constellation; click to open a dossier.

EPOCH LEGEND

  • Pre-Socratic625 BCE
  • Classical469 BCE
  • Hellenistic322 BCE
  • Late Antiquity200 CE
  • Medieval500 CE
  • Renaissance1400
  • Early Modern1637
  • 19th c.1800
  • 20th c.1900
Pre-Socratic625 BCEClassical469 BCEHellenistic322 BCELate Antiquity200 CEMedieval500 CERenaissance1400Early Modern163719th c.180020th c.1900Socrates469 BCEPlato428 BCEAristotle384 BCEAugustine of Hippo354 CEThomas Aquinas1225René Descartes1596David Hume1711Immanuel Kant1724G.W.F. Hegel1770Søren Kierkegaard1813Friedrich Nietzsche1844Martin Heidegger1889

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