Beautiful Evidence

Edward Tufte (Graphics Press)

The Galileo of graphics has done it again. It's not often an iconoclast comes along, trashes the old ways, and replaces them with an irresistible new interpretation. That's why Edward Tufte has acquired such a cult following. By teasing out the sublime from the seemingly mundane world of charts, graphs, and tables, Tufte has proven to a generation of graphic designers that great thinking begets great presentation. In Beautiful Evidence, his fourth work on what he calls “information design,” Tufte digs more deeply into art and science to reveal very old connections between truth and beauty—all the way from Galileo to Google.

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