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LAMBERT, Johann Heinrich (1728-1777). Pyrometrie oder vom Maasse des Feuers und der Wrme. Berlin: Haude und Spener, 1779.
4o (252 x 198 mm). 8 engraved plates (one folding). (Some browning and staining.) Contemporary half calf (rebacked).
FIRST EDITION. Lambert's most important work, containing the record and full discussion of his experiments with heat. William Playfair, a political economist, made extraordinary contributions to the historical development of statistical graphics. But Playfair had a forerunner, J. H. Lambert, the great scientist. With his mathematical skills, Lambert thought clearly and deeply about the architecture of statistical displays, and his data graphics in Pyrometrie (1779) are far superior to the Playfair displays of the early 1800s (as Laura Tilling has shown).
4o (252 x 198 mm). 8 engraved plates (one folding). (Some browning and staining.) Contemporary half calf (rebacked).
FIRST EDITION. Lambert's most important work, containing the record and full discussion of his experiments with heat. William Playfair, a political economist, made extraordinary contributions to the historical development of statistical graphics. But Playfair had a forerunner, J. H. Lambert, the great scientist. With his mathematical skills, Lambert thought clearly and deeply about the architecture of statistical displays, and his data graphics in Pyrometrie (1779) are far superior to the Playfair displays of the early 1800s (as Laura Tilling has shown).