The capital Use of a Chart of this Kind is, that it is a most excellent mechanical Help to the Knowledge of History, impressing the Imagination indelibly with a just Image of the Rise, Progress, Extent, Duration, and contemporary State of all the considerable Empires that have ever existed in the World.
XXXIII. A Chart of Biography, containing about Two Thousand Names of Persons the most distinguished in the Annals of Fame, the Length of whose Lives is here represented by Lines drawn in Proportion to their real Duration, and placed so as to shew by Inspection, how long any Number of Persons were contemporary, and how long one Life begun before, or extended beyond another. The Names are also distributed into Classes. By the same. 10s. 6d.
The Price of these Charts on Canvas and Rollers, is 14s. each.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
- Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling.
- Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.