Word: neurath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Otto Neurath is a bald, booming, energy-oozing sociologist and scientific philosopher who used to live and work in Vienna, now lives and works in The Netherlands. Some years ago he invented the "pictograph" or "isotype" method of conveying sociological statistics by quantitative symbols (a convenient and striking dodge that for rows of dead numbers substitutes conventionalized pictures of men, machines, factories, whatever, each picture-unit representing any number the statistician states). He now heads the International Foundation for Visual Education. Out of his feeling, and that of his group in Vienna, that science should be a unified endeavor with...
...biology, astronomy and dozens of other sciences and subdivisions each need a battery of precise terms for precise communication, so that if a common language is to take the place of special technical vocabularies, it would have to be a mon ster vocabulary requiring a lifetime to master. Dr. Neurath feels that this Tower of Babel can be overstepped by developing a common grammar of science-a unified manner of scientific exposition-so that one savant can understand another if he looks up the unfamiliar words...
Timed to coincide with the Harvard meeting was the publication of Dr. Neurath's new book for laymen, Modern Man in the Making,* which is written in plain and simple style, copiously illustrated with pictographs. Dr. Neurath discusses such aspects of "modernity" as urbanization, lower death rates, lower birth rates, higher literacy rates, higher suicide rates, mechanization, shows the relations between them...
Heinrich Lammers, Dr. Otto Meissner, Count von Neurath...
...visible result of his visit was the closing (after powwows with Protector Baron Constantin von Neurath, Sudeten Leader Karl Hermann Frank) of the Bohemian and Moravian frontiers, the outlawing of all strikes and lockouts...