Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer, "A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication" (Harvard UP, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Menard's Map
Inmenard is one of my heroes. I studied, before mnard was well known for more, anything more than just this single image. And what we see in inmenard is another a fascinating story of human history. This is sort of what wakes me up in the morning when i discover something sort of personal about what someone's motivation was. Why menard made this graphical map? What was he thinking? So Menard actually had two different careers, all within the same institution, the acol national de ponte echose,. bridges and roads.
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