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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

PLAYFAIR, William (1759 – 1823)

1759 – 1823

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1801 CE

#8148

The statistical breviary; shewing, on a principle entirely new, the resources of every state and kingdom in Europe; illustrated with stained copperplate charts, representing the physical powers of each distinct nation with ease and perspicuity. To which is added, a similar exhibition of the ruling powers of Hindoostan.

PLAYFAIR, William (1759 – 1823)

In this work Playfair invented the pie chart. It has also been suggested that Playfair, often short of funds, may have colored the charts in all the copies himself—the process he characterized as "staining" in t…