Detail View: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection: Chart of the Expenditure of the British Army during the last Century.
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Author:
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Playfair, William, 1759-1823
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Date:
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1801
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Short Title:
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Chart of the Expenditure of the British Army during the last Century.
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Publisher:
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T. Burton
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Publisher Location:
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London
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Type:
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Diagram
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Obj Height cm:
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10
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Obj Width cm:
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17
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Country:
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England
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Subject:
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Data Visualization
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Full Title:
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Chart of the Expenditure of the British Army during the last Century.
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List No:
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15749.026
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Page No:
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24
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Series No:
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26
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Publication Author:
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Playfair, William, 1759-1823
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Pub Date:
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1801
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Pub Title:
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The commercial and political atlas : representing, by means of stained copper-plate charts, the progress of the commerce, revenues, expenditure, and debts of England, during the whole of the eighteenth century. The Third Edition.
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Pub Note:
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William Playfair’s three editions of The Commercial and Political Atlas introduced an astonishing number of novel charting constructions that are still in common use today, including: The time series line graph. The divided surface area chart. The bar chart. Titles and textual descriptions. Chart framing. Color coding. Hachure and stippled dots. Labeling of axes. Gridlines. Suppression of nonsignificant digits. Time period indicators. Event markers. Theoretical, hypothetical, and projected values. Solid and broken lines. Playfair’s 1786 Atlas was the first publicly available volume to contain charts, and it exhibits 43 variants of the time series line graph together with a solitary bar chart. Playfair issued a second edition, which was little changed, in 1787. There are much more substantial differences in the third edition. Instead of 40 plates containing 44 charts, there are 26 plates containing 31 charts. The most significant omission is the bar chart showing the exports and imports of Scotland. Two new charts were added. The first, in Plate 19, is a rather elaborate large area chart on a flyout showing the annual revenues of England and France as well as the interest on debt. The other new plate is not numbered, although it is given a figure of 26 in the index and referred to as Chart XXVI in the text. Adapted by RJ Andrews from the introduction to the republication of the Atlas (Cambridge University Press, 2005) by Howard Wainer and Ian Spence.
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Pub List No:
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15749.000
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Pub Type:
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Thematic Atlas
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Pub Maps:
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26
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Pub Height cm:
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25
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Pub Width cm:
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18
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Image No:
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15749026.jp2
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Authors:
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Playfair, William, 1759-1823
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