Professor Elam

Charles Minard’s  depiciton of Napoleon’s march to Moscow is regarded as the best graphic of the 19th century, or perhaps of the alst two centuies. Please click to read the articlle which explains how Minard portrayed six different forms of information on one easy to understand page.

Click here for a view of the map of Hannibal’s 221 BC crossing of the Alps.  And there is an additional article that provides more information about the two drawings.

And the book I mentioned in class, Tufte’s  book review is at this link.