Historical and contemporary visualisations methods that are being discussed throughout this lecture demonstrate the roots of this method and how it was implemented through time. The examples given were events that took place in war such as The Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia in 1812.
Above is a graph used to document the Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812, which reads from right to left. This chart was created by Charles Joseph soon after the war occurred 50 years after, so in order to document this event there was this chart to document the temperature and distance of which has been curated through a systematic approach in terms of data and design.
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