The Minard System
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“The Minard System,” a book to be published in November 2018, features “the complete statistical graphics of Charles-Joseph Minard — from the collection of the École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées”. In the text that follows, which constitutes the preface of the book, Sandra Rendgen explores how Minard’s oeuvre is much larger than the few (and beautiful) pieces that have become to be known as the “best statistical graphic ever drawn,” and how the French civil servant created a truly novel method to (...)
