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Member of the 'left wing' of the Vienna Circle, he rejected both metaphysics and epistemology. Neurath viewed Marxism as a type of science and he saw science as a tool for change. He also headed Bavaria's programme for socialization in 1919.
With the illustrator Gerd Arntz , Neurath worked out the theory of Isotype , an early form of symbology and a striking way of representing quantitative information as easily interpretable icons. Their work has had strong formative influence on cartographic symbology and the use of proportional symbols to represent comparative spatial information (demographic and social statistics in different countries, illustrating changes over the 19th and early 20th century in a way that is designed to help the non-literate or non-specialist to understand social change and inequity; Neurath can be seen as a progenitor to Edward Tufte and Buckminster Fuller in this area.
Much of his work and web resources are only available in German, though an English translation, From Hieroglyphics to Isotypes was issued after his death, in 1946. An archive of Neurath's papers and notes is stored, unindexed, at the University of ReadingThe University of Reading is a university in the English town of Reading. Established in 1892, receiving its Royal Charter in 1926, the University has a long tradition of research, education and training at a local, national and international level. Resea in BerkshireFor other places named Berkshire, see: Berkshire (disambiguation Berkshire (pronounced Barkshe(e)r sometimes abbreviated to Berks is a county in the south of England, to the west of London and also bordering on Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Greater London, EnglandEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England.