THE BEGINNINGS OF MEDIEVAL INFORMATION VISUALIZATION - Information Visualisation: Techniques, Usability and Evaluation - page 20

Fig. 1.10. Neptune Mosaic, second century CE. Bardo Museum.
Fig. 1.11. The Hinton St. Mary Mosaic, Dorset, England, Roman Britain, fourth
century CE. © Trustees of the British Museum.
conceptual antecedents may be found in antiquity. However, it may not be
the act of invention that makes these visualizations important, but rather
their innovative application and extension that makes these works special.
Disseminated by the Carolingian network of schools, they influenced the
way information was communicated for the next four hundred years.