(Johann) (Heinrich) (Lambert) returned 13 hits
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Diagrams developed to represent color systems. In 1758, Mayer developed a system of constructing and naming many of the possible colours. Lambert extended this with a 3D pyramid indicating "depth'' (saturation).
Category:
Other
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Curve-fitting and interpolation from empirical data points
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Other
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Graphical analysis of periodic variation (in soil temperature), and the first semi-graphic display combining tabular and graphical formats
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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Theory of measurement error as deviations from regular graphed line. (Lambert made the observation that "a diagram does incomparably better service here than a table.''cite[p. 204]{Tilling:1975}
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
5
Repeated systematic application of graphical analysis (line graphs applied to empirical measurements)
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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The first weather map was invented by physicist Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes in 1816, based on data collected over several decades.
Category:
Cartography
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Experiments paving the way to the development of photography: Images obtained by action of light on a mixture of chalk, nitric acid, and silver salts
Category:
Technology
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Experiments paving the way to the development of photography: Images obtained by action of light on a mixture of chalk, nitric acid, and silver salts
Category:
Technology
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Physical atlas of the distribution of plants, animals, climate, etc., one of the most extensive and detailed thematic atlases; most of the maps contained tables, graphs, pictorial profiles of distributions over altitude, and other visual accompanyments
Category:
Cartography
10
Invention of moveable type printing press, and printing of the Mazarin bible (leads to a decline in the use of mixed text and graphics)
Category:
Technology
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Beginnings of the study of population statistics (demography)
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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Methods of determining an orbit from at least three observations; presentation of the least squares method
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
