"Johann Gutenberg" returned 11 hits
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Invention of moveable type printing press, and printing of the Mazarin bible (leads to a decline in the use of mixed text and graphics)
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Page from the Mazarin bible, Gutenberg type sample, Gutenberg portrait, Movable types in Wikipedia
Category:
Technology
2
Experiments paving the way to the development of photography: Images obtained by action of light on a mixture of chalk, nitric acid, and silver salts
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Schultze portrait, Schulze biographical blurb
Category:
Technology
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Experiments paving the way to the development of photography: Images obtained by action of light on a mixture of chalk, nitric acid, and silver salts
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Schultze portrait, Schulze biographical blurb
Category:
Technology
4
Beginnings of the study of population statistics (demography)
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Sussmilch portrait, Image of a page from Sussmilch's book
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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Diagrams developed to represent color systems. In 1758, Mayer developed a system of constructing and naming many of the possible colours. Lambert extended this with a 3D pyramid indicating "depth'' (saturation).
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Moses Harris' prismatic colour mixture system, from, Johann Heinrich Lambert's color pyramid, from, Tobias Mayer's colour pyramid, from
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Other
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Curve-fitting and interpolation from empirical data points
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Lambert biography, Lambert portrait
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Other
7
Theory of measurement error as deviations from regular graphed line. (Lambert made the observation that "a diagram does incomparably better service here than a table.''cite[p. 204]{Tilling:1975}
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
8
Repeated systematic application of graphical analysis (line graphs applied to empirical measurements)
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Graph of evaporation of water vs. time
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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Geological map (distribution of soils, minerals)
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von Charpentier bio blurb (german)
Category:
Cartography
10
Graphical analysis of periodic variation (in soil temperature), and the first semi-graphic display combining tabular and graphical formats
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Lambert graphical table of temperatures, Lambert graph of solar warming vs. lattitude
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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Methods of determining an orbit from at least three observations; presentation of the least squares method
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Gauss biography
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
