PERHAPS THE MOST CELEBRATED graphic image of all time was published in 1869 by Charles Joseph Minard, a French civil engineer. He traced the advance of Napoleon's army into Russia and its retreat from 1812 to 1813 by a sequence of thinning bands representing the total number of men. Four hundred twenty-two thousand soldiers crossed eastward into Russia, 100,000 reached Moscow, and 10,000 crossed the Neman River westward to Prussia, at which point the Grand Arrnée had lost 97.6 percent of its initial force.

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透视有史以来最杰出的图形图像由法国土木工程师Charles Joseph Minard于1869年出版。他通过一系列代表人员总数的细化带，追溯了拿破仑军队进军俄罗斯及其从1812年到1813年的退缩。四十二万二千名士兵向东越过俄罗斯，十万到达莫斯科，一万越过涅曼河向西进入普鲁士，这时大阿内河损失了其初始兵力的97.6％。