visualization of information flows

The article states the need for new methods of visualization of information flows, one of which is infographics, and notes the insufficiency of its use in the historiography of science and technology. The reasons for this are the weak use of effective methods of sys-tematization (periodization and classification) of content, as well as the lack of methodology for such presentation. The main provisions of the study are briefly considered, in which the problems of systematization are solved using some provisions of the general theory of systems by V. N. Sadovsky.