The Minard System
The Complete Statistical Graphics of Charles-Joseph Minard - From the Collection of the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
by Sandra Rendgen

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Author(s)

Sandra Rendgen

Publication

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2018

Scope

176 Pages, illustrated, 31 cm.

ISBN

9781616896331

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Minard's seminal flow map of Napoleon's 1812 march into Russia by Charles-Joseph Minard, made famous by Edward Tufte, is considered to be one of the most magnificent data graphics ever produced. The Minard System explores the nineteenth-century civil engineer's career and the story behind this masterpiece of multivariate data, as well as sixty of Minard's other statistical graphics reflecting social and economic changes of the Industrial Revolution in Europe and around the world.

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Keywords

information design

Location

Cabinet 11 - 2: Informatievormgeving

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references