Gorgeous infographics from the 19th century

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"a snowflake of clocks illustrates world time zones, with Dresden at the center. "

That time zone diagram makes baby Edward Tufte cry

let him cry.

the time snowflake is not a good representation when your only trying to inform without frills - but I think it looks nice and the information is not lost: it is fascinating to see a world clock before the definition of time zones.

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