The Commercial and Political Atlas
Author : William Playfair
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Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,67 MB
Release : 1801
Category : Great Britain
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Author : William Playfair
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,67 MB
Release : 1801
Category : Great Britain
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Author : William Playfair
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Page : pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 2018
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Author : William Playfair
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 11,50 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521855549
A scientific revolution began at the end of the eighteenth century with the invention and popularization of the graphic display of data by the remarkable Scot, William Playfair. His marvellous Atlas showed how much could be learned if one plotted data atheoretically and looked for suggestive patterns. Those patterns provide evidence, albeit circumstantial, on which to build new science. Playfair's work has much to teach us, but finding a copy has been almost impossible. Until now. This full colour reproduction of two of his classic works, with new explanatory material, makes Playfair's wisdom widely available for the first time in two centuries.
Author : WILLIAM. PLAYFAIR
Publisher : Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 32,79 MB
Release : 2018-04-24
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ISBN : 9781385559185
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T128356 The first ten plates are dated 1785. London: printed for J. Debrett; G. G. and J. Robinson; J. Sewell; the engraver, S. J. Neele; W. Creech and C. Elliot, Edinburgh; and L. White, Dublin, 1786. vii, [1],153, [1]p.,40 plates; obl.4°
Author : William PLAYFAIR
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Page : 186 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
Release : 1801
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Author : William Playfair
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 16,45 MB
Release : 1787
Category : Debts, Public
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Author : Jonathan Sachs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,71 MB
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108420311
Offers fresh understanding of British Romanticism by exploring how anxieties about decline impacted debates about literature's form and meaning.
Author : Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain)
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Page : 998 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Electronic journals
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Published papers whose appeal lies in their subject-matter rather than their technical statistical contents. Medical, social, educational, legal,demographic and governmental issues are of particular concern.
Author : Molly K. Land
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,33 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1316846113
New technological innovations offer significant opportunities to promote and protect human rights. At the same time, they also pose undeniable risks. In some areas, they may even be changing what we mean by human rights. The fact that new technologies are often privately controlled raises further questions about accountability and transparency and the role of human rights in regulating these actors. This volume - edited by Molly K. Land and Jay D. Aronson - provides an essential roadmap for understanding the relationship between technology and human rights law and practice. It offers cutting-edge analysis and practical strategies in contexts as diverse as autonomous lethal weapons, climate change technology, the Internet and social media, and water meters. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author : Miles A. Kimball
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 135153761X
Bringing together scholars from around the world, this collection examines many of the historical developments in making data visible through charts, graphs, thematic maps, and now interactive displays. Today, we are used to seeing data portrayed in a dizzying array of graphic forms. Virtually any quantified knowledge, from social and physical science to engineering and medicine, as well as business, government, or personal activity, has been visualized. Yet the methods of making data visible are relatively new innovations, most stemming from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century innovations that arose as a logical response to a growing desire to quantify everything-from science, economics, and industry to population, health, and crime. Innovators such as Playfair, Alexander von Humboldt, Heinrich Berghaus, John Snow, Florence Nightingale, Francis Galton, and Charles Minard began to develop graphical methods to make data and their relations more visible. In the twentieth century, data design became both increasingly specialized within new and existing disciplines-science, engineering, social science, and medicine-and at the same time became further democratized, with new forms that make statistical, business, and government data more accessible to the public. At the close of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first, an explosion in interactive digital data design has exponentially increased our access to data. The contributors analyze this fascinating history through a variety of critical approaches, including visual rhetoric, visual culture, genre theory, and fully contextualized historical scholarship.