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Every name on the first statistical graph
Van Langren, 1644: the labels are the data, because he named the astronomer behind every estimate including the ones that were wrong.

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Svelte, builder, JSON
<script lang="ts">
import {
GeomPoint,
GeomText,
GGPlot,
Labs,
ScaleColorManual,
ThemeTufte,
} from "@ggsvelte/svelte";
import { langren1644 } from "./data.js";
</script>
<GGPlot
data={langren1644}
aes={{ x: "longitude", y: "rank" }}
width={640}
height={400}
>
<ThemeTufte />
<ScaleColorManual
domain={["Astronomy", "Map"]}
values={["#205ea6", "#a02f6f"]}
/>
<Labs
title="Every name on the first statistical graph"
subtitle="Van Langren, 1644 — the labels are the data: he named who got it wrong"
x="Estimated Toledo–Rome longitude (°)"
y="Ordered by estimate"
color="Derived from"
/>
<GeomPoint size={3.5} aes={{ color: "source" }} />
<GeomText aes={{ label: "name" }} anchor="start" dx={7} size={10} />
</GGPlot>
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