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Nature 435, 888 (16 June 2005) | doi:10.1038/435888a; Published online 15 June 2005
Science in culture: Trees of knowledge
Martin Kemp1
There is something compelling about a phenomenon that can inscribe itself, drawing its own diagram through the direct visual recording of traces of its activity. We are familiar with these kinds of traces in the cloud and bubble chambers of atomic science, but the idea that the unseen forces of nature might reveal their actions through visible traces has a much longer history.
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javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet execution threw an exception
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java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
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