Graphs in the 1680s: Martin Lister, Robert Plot, William Molyneux and John Warner

In late 1683, the physician and F.R.S. Martin Lister displayed to the Royal Society a new way of recording barometric observations, which amounted in all but name to the construction of line graphs. The innovation was communicated to the Oxford Philosophical Society, where Robert Plot used the metho...

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Main Author: Wardhaugh, BS
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis 2023