September 12, 2012
This 1939 Map of Physics Is an Old-School Mashup of Science and Geography The journey through Physics can be a treacherous one filled with many setbacks. Thankfully, an enterprising soul decided to sit down in 1939 and draw up a map. The Map of Physics is a “a brief historical outline of the subject as will be of interest to physicists, students, laymen at large,” which organizes the field’s  many branches into rivers and tributaries.

This 1939 Map of Physics Is an Old-School Mashup of Science and Geography

The journey through Physics can be a treacherous one filled with many setbacks. Thankfully, an enterprising soul decided to sit down in 1939 and draw up a map. The Map of Physics is a “a brief historical outline of the subject as will be of interest to physicists, students, laymen at large,” which organizes the field’s  many branches into rivers and tributaries.

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    Check this out. This is just powerfully neat. I love the idea of geographying whole fields or even parts of your life....
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    Things I need.
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