{"id":7691,"date":"2013-06-09T03:27:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T00:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=7691"},"modified":"2013-06-09T03:27:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T00:27:57","slug":"adams-synchronological-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/06\/09\/adams-synchronological-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Adams&#8217; Synchronological Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A full composite of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidrumsey.com\/luna\/servlet\/detail\/RUMSEY~8~1~226099~5505934:-Composite-of--Adams--Synchronologi\">Adams&#8217; Synchronological Chart of Universal History<\/a> (1881), which Lovecraft used as a child and which he kept in later life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/adams.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/adams.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"adams\" width=\"529\" height=\"317\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7692\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lovecraft called it, in a letter about how he learned as a child, &#8230; &#8220;a marvellously graphic historic device called &#8220;Adams&#8217; Synchronological Chart&#8221; &mdash; which I still have&#8221; (<em>Lord of a Visible World<\/em>, p.20).  Elsewhere it is termed&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A huge and impressive twenty-three foot long chart showing 5,885 years of history, from 4004 B.C. to 1881 A.D. First issued in 1871, Adams put out several editions in many formats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A full composite of Adams&#8217; Synchronological Chart of Universal History (1881), which Lovecraft used as a child and which he &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/06\/09\/adams-synchronological-chart\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}