For a quite nice explanation of nomography and its history see the corresponding wikipedia article.
Short Bibliography.
- Ron Doerfler, “The Lost Art of Nomography”, The UMAP Journal, Vol 30, No. 4, 2009, pp. 457–94; downloadable from http://myreckonings.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/JournalArticle/The_Lost_Art_of_Nomography.pdf viewed 11 July 2012.
- Carl Runge, Graphical Methods, Columbia University Press, New York, 1912; readable online at http://www.archive.org/stream/graphmethods00rungrich#page/n0/mode/2up viewed 11 July 2012; provides an excellent overview of the relevant graphical methods for solving equations of many sorts.
- http://www.projectrho.com/nomogram/index.html Nomography, viewed 11 July 2012.
- http://www.projectrho.com/nomogram/reading.htmlNomography Reading List, viewed 11 July 2012.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomogram Wikipedia article on nomograms, viewed 11 July 2012.
- H. A. Eversham, The History and Development of Nomography, Docent Press, Boston, USA, 1982.
- Joseph Lipka, Graphical And Mechanical Computation - Including Nomographs And Mechanical Integration, Wexford College Press, 2003.
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