The commercial and political atlas and Statistical breviary
William Playfair's revolutionary Atlas showed how much could be learned if one plotted data atheoretically and looked for suggestive patterns. This full colour reproduction of two of his classic works, with new explanatory material, makes Playfair's wisdom widely available for the first time in two centuries.
History
viii, 35, xv, 96, 64 pages, 17 unnumbered leaves of plates, [7] folded leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
9780521855549, 0521855543
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Introduction Howard Wainer and Ian Spence; The Commercial and Political Alas; The Statistical Breviary.
A full color reproduction of the Atlas, 3rd. ed., and of the Breviary, both published in London by J. Wallis, 1801