Graphic discovery
a trout in the milk and other visual adventures
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Author
Publication
2005 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J, New Jersey
Language
English
Word Count
48,000 words, Guess
Page Count
192 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3692890M
- ISBN-100691103011
- OCLC Control Number53926612
- OCLC Control Numbergraphicdiscovery0000wain
- Library of Congress Control Number2003066083
and 2 more
- LibraryThing171661
- Goodreads1851710
Classifications
- DDC519.5
- LCCQA276.3 .W29 2005
Description
"In an illustrated story of invention and inventor that mixes science and politics, intrigue and scandal, revolution and shopping, Howard Wainer validates Thoreau's observation that circumstantial evidence can be quite convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk." "The story really begins with the eighteenth-century origins of the art, logic, and methods of data display, which emerged, full-grown, in William Playfair's landmark 1786 trade atlas of England and Wales. The remarkable Scot singlehandedly popularized the atheoretical plotting of data to reveal suggestive patterns - an achievement that foretold the graphic explosion of the nineteenth century, with atlases published across the observational sciences as the language of science moved from words to pictures."--Jacket.
First Sentence
"Getting information from a table is like extracting sunbeams from a cucumber" (Farquhar and Farquhar).
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- Graphic discovery
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