Graphics Reference
In-Depth Information
Figure
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A portion of Edmund Halley's New and Correct Sea Chart Shewing the Variations in the
CompassintheWesternandSouthernOcean,
.Source: Halley (
), image from Palsky (
, p.
)
A prodigious contributor to the use of the new graphical methods, Johann Lam-
bert [
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]introduced the ideas of curve fitting and interpolation from empir-
ical data points. He used various sorts of line graphs and graphical tables to show
periodic variation in, for example, air and soil temperature.
WilliamPlayfair[
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]iswidelyconsideredtheinventorofmostofthegraph-
ical forms used today - first the line graph and barchart (Playfair,
), later the
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