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Jacques Bertin (born 1918) is a French cartographer and
theorist, known from his book Semiologie Graphique
(Semiology of Graphics), edited in 1967. This monumental
work, based on his experience as a cartographer and geographer,
represents the first and widest intent to provide a theoretical
foundation to Information
Visualization.[1]
Biography
Jacques Bertin was born in 1918 in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines. When he was 10, he received the
first prize of cartography at primary school. He never had problems
with drawing, and pursued interests including architecture, the
teaching of drawing and cartography.[1]
Finally he ended up studying geography and cartography at the Sorbonne.
He became founder and director of the Cartographic Laboratory of
the École pratique des hautes
études (EPHE) in 1954 and director of education in 1957. In
1967 he became professor of the Sorbonne,[2] and in
1974 he became director of education and director of the
Geographical Laboratory of the École des
hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), which is part of
the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE, VIe Section).[3] Later
in the 1970s he became head of research at the Centre national de la recherche
scientifique (CNRS).[4]
In 1993 Bertin received the "Mercator-Medaille der Deutschen
Gesellschaft für Kartographie".[5]
Publications
Jacques Bertin has published numerous scientific maps, papers
and articles on map making, semiology, graphical information and
graphic processing.
- 1967. Sémiologie Graphique. Les diagrammes, les réseaux,
les cartes. With Marc Barbut [et al.]. Paris :
Gauthier-Villars. (Translation 1983. Semiology of Graphics
by William J. Berg.)
- 1969. Etude et réalisation d'un dispositift de goniométrie
et d'observation de formes d'onde, en large bande.
- 1976. Experimental and Theoretical Aspects of Induced
Polarization. 2 vol. With J. Loes. Berlin : Gebruder.
Borntraeger.
- 1977. Graphique et le traitement graphique de
l'information. With Serge Bonin [et al.].
- 1977. La graphique et le traitement graphique de
l'information. Paris : Flammarion, 1977, 273 p.
(translation 1981. Graphics and graphic
information-processing by William J. Berg and Paul
Scott).
- 1992. Harper atlas of world history. with Pierre
Vidal-Naquet. N.Y. : Harper Collins.
- 1997. Atlas historique universel. Panorama de l'histoire du
monde. With J. Devisse, D. Lavallée and J. Népote.
Genève : Éd. Minerve, 180 p.
- 2006. Nuovo atlante storico Zanichelli / sotto la direzione
di Pierre Vidal-Naquet ; direzione della
cartografia.
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