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Histropedia Sheets is a new free tool for creating interactive timelines from spreadsheets published online with Google Sheets. It allows you to create custom timelines for any purpose using simple spreadsheet knowledge only. The columns in your spreadsheet are used to add colour codes, filters and related content for each Event. The resulting timeline can be viewed full screen or […]
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HistropediaJS v1.2.0 is now available 😊 The latest instalment is ready for lift off, with some really cool new features and an equally exciting huge boost in performance! Read on for a walk through some of the Histropedia v1.2.0 highlights, or see the download page for full release notes. New features in HistropediaJS v1.2.0 New Timeline Redraw system The new […]
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HistropediaJS v1.1.0 is now available! This is a major new release with significant improvements to the core library, including a massive boost to the available zoom levels, upgraded zoom logic, built in pinch to zoom and many more powerful new features and options! New features in HistropediaJS v1.1.0 Cosmic timescales You can now fit around 15 billion years across the screen when fully zoomed […]
Read moreThis post is a follow up to the session I hosted at WikidataCon 2017 along with Stuart Prior from WikimediaUK (standing in for John Cummings, Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO) Data partnerships with reputable third parties are really important for the future of Wikidata. If we get this right it will alleviate a lot of the manual work needed keeping […]
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During the next few months we’re rolling out some very cool new features and options and for HistropediaJS, our JavaScript library for creating interactive timelines. This includes some impressive looking animations and several key improvements related to timeline scrolling. Here’s an overview of what’s coming: Smoother and easier timeline scrolling If we have done our job right you may not even notice […]
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Explore the history of science with a timeline showing the life spans of the greatest scientists of all time. “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants” Isaac Newton (1643 – 1727)
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Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, engineer, astronomer, and philosopher, responsible for some of the most revolutionary developments in the history of science. Building upon the work of Nicholas Copernicus before him, he laid down the foundations that Isaac Newton needed for formulating his famous three laws of motion and theory of […]
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This timeline shows the chronology of publication of some of the most important works in the field of mathematics from all over the world. Timeline: Publications in mathematics Time Range: 1600 BC to present day Category: Science and Mathematics No of Events: 51 The timeline starts at the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus published in Ancient Egypt circa 1650 BC and stretches up to the modern […]
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Marking the 43rd anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission we have a timeline of the History of the Apollo Program. The Apollo program was the third human space flight program carried out by NASA, running from 1961 to 1975. After a series of unmanned mission from 1961 to 1967, Apollo 1 was set to be the first manned mission of […]
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