History and Origins of Graphs

[ via Davos Newbies ] In a article with the facinating title “Blood, Dirt, and Nomograms” you learn about the origin of graphs in science and engineering. From the abstract:

L. J. Henderson, a Harvard physiologist and the first president of the History of Science Society, attempted to analyze mammalian blood solely as a physical-chemical substance. He found that the only way he could describe a chemical system as complicated as blood was by a diagram called a “nomogram.”

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