Table of Contents


Introduction

Charles Kostelnick, Iowa State University
Miles A. Kimball, Texas Tech University

Part I: Visualizing Human Behavior and Bodies

A History of Crime Maps: Picturing Crime and Statistics
G. N. G. Vanderveen, Leiden University

Visualizing Public Health: Smallpox Epidemics, Communicating Risk, and Changing Representations of Disease Rates
Candice A. Welhausen, University of Delaware, and Rebecca E. Burnett, Georgia Institute of Technology

Florence Nightingale's Statistical Tables for Medical Care
Lee Brasseur, Illinois State University

The Shape of Things to Come: Geometric Morphometrics, Growth, and Evolution
Alan Gross, University of Minnesota

Part II: Visualizing the Moral and Material Conditions of Nations

Moral Statistics and the Thematic Maps of Joseph Fletcher
Robert Cook, University of Massachusetts, and Howard Wainer, National Board of Medical Examiners

Innovation and Inertia in Statistical Mapping in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America
Mark Monmonier, Syracuse University

Mountains of Wealth, Rivers of Commerce: Michael G. Mulhall's Graphics and the Imperial Gaze
Miles A. Kimball, Texas Tech University

 “A scheme of cross-roads, orderly and mad”: British Trench Maps of World War I
Marguerite Helmers, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

Part III:  Examining Visual Forms, Methods, and Technologies

Visualizing Data with Mosaics: The History and Rhetorical Resiliency of a Data Display Genre
Charles Kostelnick and Heike Hofmann, Iowa State University

Pencil of Society: Statistics and Photography
Tomáš Dvo?ák, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

“Le calcul par l’œil”: Statistical Maps and Diagrams in France, 1780-1845
Gilles Palsky, University of Paris

The Milestones Project: A Database for the History of Data Visualization
Michael Friendly, York University

Part IV: Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship on the History of Data Graphics

Kevin Van Winkle, Texas Tech University