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Minard chart of Napoleon's Russian Campaign

Original - Charles Minard's 1869 chart details the losses of men, the position of the army, and the freezing temperatures on Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. Created in an effort to show the horrors of war, the graph "defies the pen of the historian in its brutal eloquence."

Reason: Minard's Carte figurative has been called the best statistical graphic ever drawn, and is quite famous. Minard weaves together multiple streams of data: timelines, army locations, losses in men, and temperatures, all which stunningly portray the disastrous military campaign. The Newberry Library cartography department tells me that the only known copies belong to a library in France (Ecole polytechnique?) and an original is actually on display right now in the Field Museum here in Chicago through the end of the month in their mind-blowing Maps exhibit!
Articles this image appears in: Charles Minard, French invasion of Russia, and others
Creator: Charles Minard, 1869

Support as nominator Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 02:57, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support a classic data representation image! Nice reproduction, all the small text is clear, etc. de Bivort 04:59, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support Absolutely, a brilliant graph by any standard and a landmark of its field. Durova^Charge! 06:09, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support btw I was just shown a copy of this yesterday, and by coincidence have now stumbled upon it here, I think it is a very smart {{PD-old}} nomination. Regards, dvd rw 06:23, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support A brilliant graph. The Economist recently featured this graph as being one of the best three graphs of all time and quoted a key work on presenting quantitative data which labeled it as being the best graph. --Nick Dowling (talk) 10:23, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. I note that the image page includes an English translation of the block of French text, as well as instructions for reading the temperature graph at the bottom of the image (temperature is shown in chronological order from _right_ to _left_, in degrees on the Réaumur scale (multiply degrees Réaumur by 1.25 to get degrees Celsius). Spikebrennan (talk) 19:57, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Very nice. Cat-five - talk 09:01, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support - one of the all-time classic illustrations. Tim Vickers (talk) 17:54, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment can we have some details on the source and the cleanup from whatever scan this was taken from? gren グレン 18:18, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Why isn't this an FP yet? --Shark face 217 02:09, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sublime integration of crucial data into one easy graphical image. I typically reference as a gold standard during my own analysis. Dustin Roark Tanen 09:47, 9 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.32.16.101 (talk) 16:44, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Minard.png MER-C 02:15, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]