"Abraham de Moivre" returned 21 hits
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Catalan Atlas, an exquisitely beautiful visual cosmography, perpetual calendar, and thematic representation of the known world
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Catalan Atlas, detail: Europe, North Africa, Carte de l'Europe, de l'Afrique du Nord et du Proche-Orient, BNF, ESP 30, Carte de l'Europe, de l'Afrique du Nord et du Proche-Orient, BNF, ESP 30, BNF listing of images from the Catalan Atlas, BNF description of Atlas catalan (BNF, ESP 30), Detailed description of Catalan Atlas and Abraham Cresques (Henry-Davis)
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Cartography
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Liber de Ludo Alaea, a practical guide to gambling, containing the first systematic computation of probabilities; written in 1562, but not published until 1663.
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Gerolamo Cardano portrait, Cardano (Galileo project), Cardano biography
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Statistics & Graphics
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The first modern atlas, Teatrum Orbis Terrarum
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Map of the Netherlands, medium, Ortelius world map, from De Camp 1970, Map of the Netherlands, small, Ortelius portrait, Overview of Ortelius and the Teatrum
Category:
Cartography
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Coordinate system reintroduced in mathematics, analytic geometry; relationship established between graphed line and equation
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Descartes portrait, Biographical sketch - Rene Descartes, Biographical sketch - Pierre de Fermat
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Statistics & Graphics
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Initial statements of the theory of probability
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Pascal portrait, Pascal biography, extract from
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Statistics & Graphics
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First text on probability
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Huygens portrait, Biographical blurb from, English translation of De Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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First attempt to determine scientifically what should be the purchase price of annuities, using mortality tables
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de Witt portrait, Death and Statistics, including an account of de Witt's method, de Witt biography
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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The normal distribution, derived as the limit of the binomial distribution
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de Moivre portrait, Maty's (1755) biography of Abraham De Moivre, Wikipedia: Normal distribution
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Other
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Introduction of a notation which gives a name and address to every possible point in 3D space, $(x,y,z)$.
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De'couverte d'un nouveau principe de mecanique, Euler biography:
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Statistics & Graphics
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Contour map
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Buache's 1770 Carte physique ou Geographie naturelle de la France, Buache contour map icon
Category:
Cartography
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Use of geometric, proportional figures (squares) to compare demographic quantities by superposition, an early "tableau graphique''
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de Fourcroy's proportional squares, de Fourcroy's proportional squares, Description of de Fourcroy, from Palsky
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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First graph of isotherms, showing mean temperature around the world by latitude and longitude. Recognizing that temperature depends more on latitude and altitude, a subscripted graph shows the direct relation of temperature on these two variables
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von Humboldt isotherms, Annals de Chemie et de physique, 1817, von Humboldt isotherm, von Humboldt isotherms from Berghaus' 1849 Atlas, von Humboldt isotherm icon
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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First successful photograph produced (an 8-hour exposure). [A type of asphalt (bitumen of Judea) was coated on metal plates. After exposure it was washed in solvents, the light areas were shown by the bitumen, dark areas by bare metal. Exposed to iodine, the plate darkened in the shadowed areas.]
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Niepce photo, Point de vue du Gras, Niepce portrait, University of Texas exhibition: The first photo, Catalog of Niepce heliographies
Category:
Technology
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First simple dot map of population by department, 1 dot = 10,000 people
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Dot map of population of France, 1830
Category:
Cartography
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Development of the logistic curve, $ y = k / (1 + C e^)$, to describe the growth of human populations
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Verhulst portrait, Verhulst bio, Pierre-Francois Verhulst et la loi logistique de la population
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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First-known use of a semi-graphic table to display a data table by shading levels
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Google Books: Atlas Statistique de Paris, Loua scalogram of 40 characteristics of 20 Paris districts (2422 x 1932; 1386K), Loua scalogram, color version (1212 x 960; 318K), Shaded map of Paris showing number of inhabitants per house (935 x 615; 77K)
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Statistics & Graphics
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Population contour map (population density shown by contours), the first statistical use of a contour map
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Estuaire de la Seine en 1834, Vauthier contour map, Vauthier contour map, Vauthier portrait, Wikipedia: Louis-Léger Vauthier
Category:
Cartography
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Album de Statistique Graphique, an annual series over 20 years, using all known graphic forms (map-based pies and stars, mosaic, line graphs, bar charts, and, of course, numerous flow maps) to depict data relevant to planning (railways, canals, ports, tramways, etc.) [This series, under the direction of Émile Cheysson, is regarded as the epitome of the "Golden Age of Statistical Graphics'']
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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Combination of many variables into multi-function nomograms, using 3D, juxtaposition of maps, parallel coordinate and hexagonal grids (L'Abaque Triomphe)
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Lallemand's "L'Abaque Triomphe'', l'Ecole des mines: Lalanne "compteur universel'' and other calculating diagrams, Lallemand biography and portrait, Detailed biography (French)
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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Use of ethnographic maps, showing the distribution of mixed nationalities, played an important role in redrawing national boundaries of Central Europe and the Balkans following World War I
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de Martonne portrait (1190 x 1762; 202K), Distribution of nationalities in the the countries dominated by Roumanians (2925 x 1959; 1026K), Wikipedia entry for De Martonne (French)
Category:
Cartography
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Comprehensive theory of graphical symbols and modes of graphics representation
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Bertin's seven visual variables, The reorderable matrix, Bertin portrait, Bertin color portrait, 30 ans de semiologique graphique, InfoVis interview with J. Bertin, Jacques Bertin, Semiologie Graphique web site
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
