Editing Scientific visualization (section)

==History==
[[File:Minard's Map (vectorized).svg|thumb|right|Charles Minard's [[flow map]] of [[French invasion of Russia|Napoleon's March]].]]
One of the earliest examples of three-dimensional scientific visualisation was [[Maxwell's thermodynamic surface]], sculpted in clay in 1874 by [[James Clerk Maxwell]].<ref>James Clerk Maxwell and P. M. Harman (2002), ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=JbNK9lRLHPEC&pg=PA148 The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Volume 3; 1874–1879]'', Cambridge University Press, {{ISBN|0-521-25627-5}}, p. 148.</ref> This prefigured modern scientific visualization techniques that use [[computer graphics]].<ref>{{cite journal |author=Thomas G.West |title=Images and reversals: James Clerk Maxwell, working in wet clay |journal=ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics |url=http://www.siggraph.org/publications/newsletter/v33n1/columns/west.html |volume=33 |issue=1 |date=February 1999 |pages=15–17 |doi=10.1145/563666.563671|s2cid=13968486 }}</ref>

Notable early two-dimensional examples include the [[flow map]] of [[French invasion of Russia|Napoleon's March on Moscow]] produced by [[Charles Joseph Minard]] in 1869;<ref name = "MF08"/> the "coxcombs" used by [[Florence Nightingale]] in 1857 as part of a campaign to improve sanitary conditions in the [[British Army]];<ref name = "MF08"/> and the [[Dot distribution map|dot map]] used by [[John Snow (physician)|John Snow]] in 1855 to visualise the [[1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak|Broad Street cholera outbreak]].<ref name = "MF08"/>