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History of Diagrams
The earliest abstract illustrations are maps.
Maps relate physical distances between locations in the world and physical distances of these locations on paper.
By their nature, they abstract out detail (e.g. roads are represented by straight lines, coastlines are abbreviated etc)
The map is not the territory...?
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