In message , at 18:45:28 on Tue, 31 Oct
2017, Peter Able remarked:

This is overt plagiarism.

"the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off
as one's own" where 'draws on the pioneering information design work of
Harry Beck' comprehensively refutes that.

and who wrote that quotation?

The first is from an online dictionary, the second from David Rumsey's
website.
--
Roland Perry