Abstract:In this study we present, for the first time in the literature, a semiotic analysis concerning the forms of use of pictorial diagrams with square shapes and their physical molds, used by August Hofmann in a set of lectures, during the period he was in Great Britain teaching at Royal College. The methodology adopts for semiotic analysis the typology of the ten classes of Charles Peirce, and makes comparisons with other similar symbolic forms, used by John Daniell. The results reveal that the semiosis imposed by… Show more
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