The Flawed Genius of William Playfair: The Story of the Father of Statistical Graphics
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1487545037 | 356 Pages | PDF | 83 MB
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1487545037 | 356 Pages | PDF | 83 MB
A product of the Scottish Enlightenment, William Playfair (1759–1823) worked as a statistician, economist, engineer, banker, land speculator, scam artist, and political propagandist. It has been claimed – erroneously – that Playfair was a spy for the British government and ran a forging operation to print the paper money of the French Revolution.