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MAREY, Etienne Jules. La Méthode graphique dans les sciences expérimentales. Paris: Masson, 1878. 8o. Numerous text illustrations. Original cloth. -- Développement de la méthode graphique par l'emploi de la photographie... Supplement a la méthode graphique... Paris: Masson, 1885. 8o. Numerous illustrations in text; original wrappers. Both housed in half leather folding case.
FIRST EDITION, includes Marey's redrawing of Minard's famous map of the War of 1812 ("Carte figurative des pertes successives en hommes de l'armée Francaise dans la campagne de Russie 1812-13"). "This statistical map portrays the successive losses of the French Army in Napoleon's Russian campaign of 1812. The overall toll, French and Russian, was approximately 700,000 to 1,000,000. Described by E.J. Marey as seeming to defy the pen of the historian by its brutal eloquence, Minard's map exemplifies many of the fundamental principles of analytical design" (Tufte, Beautiful Evidence, p. 126). RARE.
FIRST EDITION, includes Marey's redrawing of Minard's famous map of the War of 1812 ("Carte figurative des pertes successives en hommes de l'armée Francaise dans la campagne de Russie 1812-13"). "This statistical map portrays the successive losses of the French Army in Napoleon's Russian campaign of 1812. The overall toll, French and Russian, was approximately 700,000 to 1,000,000. Described by E.J. Marey as seeming to defy the pen of the historian by its brutal eloquence, Minard's map exemplifies many of the fundamental principles of analytical design" (Tufte, Beautiful Evidence, p. 126). RARE.