[R] [OT] vernacular names for circular diagrams

[Jean lobry]

>
>  On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:38:51 -0600, Roger Koenker wrote:
>
>  Howard Wainer  (Graphical Discovery, PUP, 2005, p 20) gives
>  this dubious honor to Playfair (1759- 1823).   Nightingale (1820-
>  1910) was far too enlightened for this sort of thing, see for example
>  her letter to Galton about endowing an Oxford professorship
>  in social statistics (reprinted in Karl Pearson's bio of Galton:
>
> 
>http://galton.org/cgi-bin/searchImages/search/pearson/vol2/pages/vol2_0482.htm
>
>  It sets a very ambitious agenda that we have not yet made much
>  progress on...

So, if the pie chart was invented by Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), then
William Playfair (1759-1823) would be guilty of what the surrealists called a
"plagiarism by anticipation".

Best,

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