(Johann) (Peter) (S) returned 12 hits

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Author: Johann Gutenberg (1398-1468)
Invention of moveable type printing press, and printing of the Mazarin bible (leads to a decline in the use of mixed text and graphics)
Category: Technology
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Author: Regnier Gemma-Frisius (1508-1555)
Description of how to determine mapping locations by triangulation, from similar triangles, and with use of angles w.r.t meridians
Category: Statistics & Graphics
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Author: Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687-1687)
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
Category: Technology
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Author: Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687-1687)
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
Category: Technology
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Authors: Johann Peter Süssmilch (1707-1767)
Beginnings of the study of population statistics (demography)
Category: Statistics & Graphics
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Authors: Johanes Tobias Mayer (1723-1762) & Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777) & Moses Harris (1730-1785)
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).
Category: Other
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Author: Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777)
Curve-fitting and interpolation from empirical data points
Category: Other
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Author: Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777)
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
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Author: Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777)
Repeated systematic application of graphical analysis (line graphs applied to empirical measurements)
Category: Statistics & Graphics
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Author: Johann Friedrich von Charpentier (1738-1805)
Geological map (distribution of soils, minerals)
Category: Cartography
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Author: Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777)
Graphical analysis of periodic variation (in soil temperature), and the first semi-graphic display combining tabular and graphical formats
Category: Statistics & Graphics
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Author: Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)
Methods of determining an orbit from at least three observations; presentation of the least squares method
Category: Statistics & Graphics