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If you have any interest in information graphics, maps, or history, you know of the seminal flow map of Napoleon's 1812 march into Russia by Charles- Joseph Minard, made famous by Edward Tufte, and considered to be one of the most magnificent data graphics ever produced. The Minard System explores the nineteenth-century civil engineer's career and the story behind this masterpiece of multivariate data, as well as sixty of Minard's other statistical graphics reflecting social and economic changes of the Industrial Revolution in Europe and around the world. These stunning drawings are from the collection of the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris and have never before been published in their entirety.

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For most people who are not specialists in informational graphic design, Charles-Joseph Minard's name first became familiar with the publication of Edward Tufte's Envisioning Information (CH, Nov'90, 28-1398). Minard's splendid visual representation of Napoleon's Grande Armée's march in the Russian campaign more tellingly recounted the pace of its withering destruction than any set of tables and numbers could ever do. Now Rendgen lends historical context to Minard's famous map. It turns out that Minard (1781--1870) was methodical throughout his later life in demonstrating the uses of graphic interpretation of statistical data, and indeed the famous Napoleon diagram was only half of a more complex sheet that included (at the same scale) Hannibal's transalpine campaign against Rome. Rendgen provides ample background to prove that many of the common kinds of graphs and charts one sees today were either developed or crafted by Minard. This is an important work for specialists in the visual arts and statistical sciences, but it is written in a style that will be accessible to a wider readership. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. --Steven Skaggs, University of Louisville

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Sandra Rendgen is an author and editor with a focus on information graphics, interactive media, and the history of information visualization. Based in Berlin, Germany, she studied art history and cultural theory and is the co-author of Information Graphics and Understanding the World: The Atlas of Infographics .