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Primary Sources and Picture Books: Lines, Bars and Circles: how William Playfair Invented Graphs by Helaine Becker

Album Description

A curated set of sources to accompany the picture book Lines, Bars and Circles: How William Playfair Invented Graphs

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Exports and Imports of Scotland to and from different parts for one Year from Christmas 1780 to Christmas 1781

Time series graph of trade balances

Interest of the British national debt in the 18th Century

Pie chart from Playfair's "Statistical Breviary"

Linear Chronology, Exhibiting the Revenues, Expenditure, Debt, Price of Stocks & Bread, from 1770 to 1824

Chart of all the import and exports to and from England from the year 1700 to 1782

Export & Import to and from the West Indies from the year 1700 to 1780

Export & Import to and from all North America from 1700 to 1800

Chart Shewing the Value of the Quarter of Wheat in Shillings & in Days Wages of a Good Mechanic from 1565 to 1821

import and exports of England to and from all North America from the year 1770 to 1782

Population & Revenue chart