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beautyandattentiontographicdetailseeninmanyoftheseimages,particularlythose
from the
th century. We would be hard-pressed to recreate many of these today.
From this history one may also see that most of the innovations in data visualiza-
tion arose from concrete, oten practical, goals: the need or desire to see phenom-
ena and relationships in new or different ways. It is also clear that the development
of graphic methods depended fundamentally on parallel advances in technology,
data collection and statistical theory. Finally, I believe that the application of mod-
ern methods of data visualization to its own history, in this self-referential way I call
'statistical historiography,' offerssomeinteresting views ofthepastandchallenges for
the future.
Acknowledgement.
hisworkissupportedbyGrant
fromtheNationalSciencesand
Engineering Research Council of Canada.I am gratefultothe archivistsof many librariesand
to les Chevaliers des Albums de Statistique Graphique: Antoine de Falguerolles, Ruddy Oster-
mann, Gilles Palsky, Ian Spence, Antony Unwin, and Howard Wainer for historical informa-
tion, images, and helpful suggestions.
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