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Thinking Like Einstein: Returning to Our Visual Roots With the Emerging Revolution in Computer Information Visualization
by Thomas G. West

New York: Prometheus Books, 2004

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PART 1 - VISUAL THINKING
Chapter 1 - Forward into the Past: A Revival of Old Visual Talents with Computer Visualization
Chapter 2 - Thinking Like Einstein on the Hokule'a: Visual Thinking through Time
Chapter 3 - Visual Thinkers and Nobel Prizes
Chapter 4 - Word-Bound: The Power of Seeing
Chapter 5 - When the World Plague Was Stopped by a Digital Artist
Chapter 6 -Smashing Images
PART 2- VISUAL TECHNOLOGIES
Chapter 7 - Is Visualization No Longer a "New New Thing"?
Chapter 8 - Talk Less, Draw More
Chapter 9 - Unintended, Unexpected Consequences
Chapter 10 - Artist Discoveries and Graphical Histories
Chapter 11 - Transforming Spheres -- in Three Parts
PART 3 - VISUAL BRAINS
Chapter 12 - Making All Things Make Themselves
Chapter 13 - Enormous Eyes and Tiny Grasping Hands
Chapter 14 - Brain Drain: Reconsidering Spatial Ability
Chapter 15 - Knowing What You Don't Need to Know
PART 4 - VISUAL PEOPLE
Chapter 16 - Feynman Diagrams, Spreading Illusions
Chapter 17 - Missed Opportunities and Cheap Tools
Chapter 18 - James Clerk Maxwell, Working in Wet Clay
Chapter 19 - Digital Artist as Hero
Chapter 20 - Is a Visualization Language Possible?
Chapter 21 - Following the Gifts: Art, Visual Talent, and Troubles with Words
Chapter 22 - Nikola Tesla and Thinking in Pictures
Chapter 23 - Seeing the Unseen: Concluding Remarks
 
   
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