Thinking like a scientist in a multidisciplinary arena: the case of Renoir's painting

By Berry Billingsley, Mark Windsor

Issue 376 | Page 19 | Published Apr 2020

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What does it mean to think like a scientist? How is thinking like a scientist similar to, and different from, thinking like a scholar in other disciplines?

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