Referenced maps and histories
Earlier maps help you see how people have organised the field: as a history, a family tree, a classification or a route into practice. Those forms answer different questions. This directory gives attribution, a reference route and the limits of what has been checked.
Use it alongside the interactive map collection and the atlas’s mapping principles. A source map’s lines aren’t automatically accepted as atlas relationships.
Some Streams of Systemic Thought
A broad genealogy joining philosophical, scientific and practical streams. Several differently named copies resolve to this same chart. Their filenames don't establish different authorship.
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Attribution and public ISSS source route checked; no diagram redistribution or automatic influence claims.
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Streams of System Thought; May 2001 attribution
History of the Ideas of Cybernetics and Systems Science
A large historical mural combining people, quotations, publications and conferences. Two retained versions share this title; exact visual equivalence hasn't been established.
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Public account available. The original author-host PDF currently redirects to a suspended-host page; use the credited account rather than promising a working download.
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Mural information box; ISSS 50th anniversary, Sonoma State, 9–14 July 2006
The Genesis of Complexity
A historical reconstruction relating cybernetics, general systems theory and system dynamics to complexity. The dates of the manuscript and published article are kept separate.
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Manuscript identity and publisher citation identified. This is Abraham's account of the history; its tree is not adopted as the atlas's final boundary.
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Introduction: the three roots; figures 1–8
A Timeline for the Evolution of Cybernetics
A chronological route through several strands contributing to cybernetics. The source explicitly describes its selection as incomplete.
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Official public timeline inspected. A timeline entry is a lead for checking history, not by itself a verified influence relationship.
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Opening explanation; Prehistory; Historical Era; other timelines
A Typology for the Systems Field
A published proposal for organising the systems field by its philosophies, theories and practices. It provides a public reference route for the systemology work and comparisons with earlier maps.
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Institutional publication record and public abstract checked. The separately retained confidential slide deck isn't reproduced or treated as public evidence.
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Article citation; public SysCoI abstract; comparative-map figures and captions in the article
Field of Systems Thinking
A developmental map reproduced and discussed in the published typology article. Attribution follows the figure caption; no separate live original has been verified.
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Referenced through the article; original publication and reproduction rights require further checking.
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Rousseau et al. (2016), comparative-map figure caption citing Wright (2012), p. 10
Systems thinking and systems practice map
A comparison linking kinds of systems thinking and systems practice through systemic interests. The public article is the reference route; the historic interactive destination hasn't been verified.
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Bibliographic route identified; direct interactive map remains an access check.
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Rousseau et al. (2016), discussion and caption for Graf's systemic-interests map
Four domains of the systems sciences
A spectrum of general systems theories, disciplinary theories, systems analysis and applications. It is distinct from the Schwarz chart sometimes stored under a Troncale filename.
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Bibliographic comparator identified; original full-text and exact figure review remain open.
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The systems sciences: What are they? Are they one, or many?, fig. 1; discussed in Rousseau et al. (2016)
A Taxonomy of Systems Science
A classification of systems science, useful for comparison with maps of historical influence. A classification and a genealogy answer different questions.
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Bibliographic comparator identified; original edition and exact reproduction remain to be checked.
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Van Gigch and Kramer (1981), p. 183; reproduced in the comparative article material
The shape of the systems movement
A depiction of theoretical and applied branches within a wider account of systems sciences. Attribution comes from the public chapter, not from an ambiguous local filename.
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Public chapter and authors identified; no private image is reproduced.
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The Systems Sciences in Service of Humanity, section 4 and systems-movement diagram
World of Systems and Systems Maps
A public directory and interactive reading routes that assemble many systems maps. A compiled collection isn't a single new map or a uniform source of evidence.
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Official directory inspected; its source-connection limitation is retained.
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Systems Maps; Streams of System Thought; attribution and source-connection caveat
Related institutional reading
Mobus, Sankaran and Smith: The International Society for the Systems Sciences: Contributions to the Future World (2022), European Journal of Social Science Education and Research 9(4), 81–97. DOI: 10.26417/950aeu54p. This is a discussion of institutional purpose and renewal, rather than another genealogy map.
Coverage still to check
Some retrieved copies were duplicates or incomplete images. Some original destinations no longer work, and not every item in the requested collection could be enumerated. Restricted material has been kept outside this public directory. Individual map links, original editions and diagram relationships still need further verification before a complete comparison or graph import can be claimed.