Interactive visualizations exploring 500,000 Latin works printed between 1450 and 1700. Each experiment reveals a different facet of early modern knowledge — its geography, its intellectual currents, its forgotten authors.
15 visualizations across Source Library and Second Renaissance
Stop-motion visualization of the real AI translation pipeline processing a 15th-century Ficino manuscript. Real IIIF page images from Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, actual Gemini OCR output with XML tags, and live translation — the whole system made visible.
35,532 illustrations from pre-modern texts, clustered into 50 groups by visual similarity. Tile-based renderer with quadtree spatial indexing — zoom from 35K dots down to individual thumbnails.
3,500+ pre-modern texts as a navigable 3D constellation, clustered by content similarity using AI embeddings and UMAP dimensionality reduction.
How concepts and vocabulary spread across centuries and languages in 2,400+ translated texts. Track individual terms through time.
Sankey flow diagram tracking 9 occult and esoteric traditions — Hermetica, Alchemy, Mysticism, Kabbalah, Neoplatonism and more — from 1469 to 1750.
Animated map of Latin printing spreading across 48 European cities from 1450 to 1700. Watch Gutenberg's invention ripple outward.
Scatter plot showing the gap between when works were composed and when they were first translated. Some waited 2,000 years.
Three switchable timelines: lives of 47 Renaissance thinkers, 50 most prolific printers, and authors by edition count.
Multi-dimensional influence scoring combining ISTC/USTC edition counts, Google Scholar citations, and Ngram cultural presence.
Google Ngram trends for 150+ classical and Renaissance works. Which ancient texts are gaining modern readership?
Dashboard of 556,000 Latin works: language trends, accessibility funnel, printing centers, subject classifications.
Interactive celestial hierarchy inspired by Iamblichus' Neoplatonic philosophy. Explore the chain of being from The Good to rational souls.
Curated collection of Renaissance esoteric and scientific artwork from Wikimedia Commons. Alchemy, Hermeticism, natural philosophy.
Live charts tracking Source Library growth: book collection, OCR pages processed, translations completed, commit velocity.
Playable medieval number game from the 11th century. Challenge AI opponents at the "Philosopher's Game" that once rivaled chess.