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JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post (Quantitative Display of Information Series)
Here’s another in a long series of Quick Posts on the artistic display of data: this one shows comparative naval strengths just after the turn of the century around the time of the First Moroccan Crisis, and appears in the 5 July 1905 issue of the Scientific American, home to a great number of these examples of popular numerical presentation. Rule Britannia: