HISA04H3 Lecture Notes - Beaver Hat, Pie Chart, French Wine
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Week 4, lecture 4 hisa04 themes in world history mon 3rd oct 2012. Map represented the campaign and a turning point in french history. Movement of troops represented in names and shows their routes and correlated to the weather. Particularly affected by the weather lost because they were not prepared for the weather. Represents 6 types of information: geography, time, temperature, number of troops, and the route and direction of their movement. International trade and the development of data graphics. Development in international trade played big role of these graphics, and part of why is because of the scale; trade happening over large areas and extremely high amount of silver going to china and back to europe etc. William playfair (1759-1823) a scoundrel and innovator. Not formally trained engineered, trained apprentice, worked where the first steam engine was built, worked around machines, extremely unreliable and dubious character.