Seeing the forest for the trees: Visualization, cognition, and scientific inference

Scientific and Technological Thinking

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 173-218

  Gooding, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410611314     Document Type: Chapter

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