This artists' book contains complete documentation of 'The Temptation of the Diagram', a project conceived at the Getty Research Institute studio while Ritchie was Artist in Residence in 2012. Subsequently the project has been presented in the form of large-scale installations and curated exhibitions around the world. In the three accompanying essays, Matthew Ritchie examines the history of diagrams and proposes a new theory of diagrammatic relationships; Professor Rogers describes the project in depth and Professor Stjernfelt provides a glossary of diagrammatic terms.