Thagard, P. & Hardy, S. (1992) Visual thinking and the development of Dalton's atomic theory. Proceedings of the Ninth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Vancouver. 30--37. `

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Author of the summary: Jim Davies, 2001, jim@jimdavies.org

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This paper shows some text by Dalton that indicates he used a diagram he made to work through his scientific thinking. He also used visual analogies to describe spatial relationships.

This paper shows it's important to use a hierarchical and 3d representation to describe Dalton's thinking.

This work adds a primitive functions for spatial reasoning to Glasgow and Papadias' (1998): Surround. It places a new entry in every place adjacent (in 3d.)

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