The Minard System

If you have any interest in information graphics, maps, or history, you know of the seminal flow map of Napoleons 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 engineers career and the story behind this masterpiece of multivariate data, as well as sixty of Minards 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 cole Nationale des Ponts et Chausses in Paris and have never before been published in their entirety.