Tree diagram

Floor mosaic of a the Tree of Life (as a pomegranite) from the Big Basilica at Heraclea Lyncestis. Bitola, Macedonia, 4th c. BC. The three shape as symbol has its roots in the ancient civilisations. The oldest known diagrams originate from the Middle Ages.

English: A tree diagram is a diagram, in which the relations between the elements are drawn in a hierarchical network.

History

Medieval diagrams

See also: Medieval diagrams

Tree of virtues and vices, 1120
Joaquin de Fiore (1135-1202)
Hortus deliciarum, 1175 (Tree of Jesse)
Family tree of House of Welf late 12th c.
Tree of virtues, c. 1260
Jacob van Maerlants, Der naturen bloeme, 13th c.
14th c.
1305/1512
1335
Arbre généalogique of Filip Slicny, 14th c.
1330-40

15th century

Armadio degli argenti, genealogia di cristo, c. 1450
1470
1470
1489-92
1490
1491
1491
1493
1494
1497 (1)
1497 (2)
1497 (3)

16th century

1500
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1530-1534
1538
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1540-50
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17th century

17th c.
17th c.
17th c.
17th c.
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1629
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18th century

18th c.
1707
1720
1725-30
1730
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1735
1738
1738-51
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Late 18th c.

19th century

1801
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20th century, first half

1920
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20th century, second half

Types of tree diagrams

Family tree

A family tree is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure, see also: Family tree

Family tree of House of Welf late 12th c.
Arbre généalogique of Filip Slicny, 14th c.

Legal tree

A legal tree is a chart representing legal concepts. See also Category:Legal trees

Tree of affinity, 1470
Tree of consanguinity, 1470
Tree of consanguinity, 1539
Tree of division and individuality, 1538

Phylogenetic tree or evolutionary tree

A phylogenetic tree shows the inferred evolutionary relationships among various biological species or other entities—their phylogeny—based upon similarities and differences in their physical or genetic characteristics. See also Category:Phylogenetic tree of life

Origin of Species illustration, 1850
On the Origin of Species diagram, 1859

Porphyrian tree

The Porphyrian tree is a classic classification of a "Scale of being" invented by one of the earliest Greek logicians Porphyry. See also: Category:Porphyrian tree.

1305/1512
1512

Tree of Jesse

A Tree of Jesse is a visual representation of interpretations of the ancestry of Jesus from Jesse. See also Tree of Jesse

Hortus deliciarum, 1175
Armadio degli argenti, genealogia di cristo, c. 1450
Folio of a Breviary, 1500s
Tree of Jesse icon, 17 c.

Tree of life

Tree of life, a metaphor for common descent, and a motif in various world theologies and philosophies. See also Category:Tree of life

Tree of life (?), 1310-20
Catalonian breviary Tree of Life allegory, 14th c.
Tree of Life with four cardinal virtues, c. 1420

Tree of virtues and vices

A tree of virtues (arbor virtutum) is a diagram used in medieval Christian tradition to display the relationships between virtues, usually juxtaposed with a tree of vices (arbor vitiorum) where the vices are treated in a parallel fashion.