1759-1823

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1759-1823

Lines, bars and circles

how William Playfaire invented graphs
2017
Looks at how William Playfair invented line, bar, and circle graphs.

Graphic discovery

a trout in the milk and other visual adventures
2005
Presents an examination of the history of the use of visual graphs in the presentation of information, from its eighteenth century origins in art, logic, to the graphic explosion of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, where communication shifted from words to pictures.
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