Grand tour

A book I have borrowed much from is Coryat s Crudities (1611). (I have the Scolar Press facsimile edition of 1905.) Thomas Coryat journeyed from London to Venice and back in 1605, mostly on foot, and thus invented the Grand Tour. On his return he wrote what may fairly be called the first travel book since Pausanias s of Greece in the second century AD. Coryat includes vivid descriptions... 

Grand Tours, where decision makers visit all countries under consideration. 

Hibbert, C. (1969) The Grand Tour. London Weidenfeld Nicolson. 

In 1786 he undertook a grand tour of Denmark, Germany, Holland, England, and Ireland. In Germany he met Lorenz Crell (1744-1816), the editor of the journal Chemische Annalen. They became friends, and it was in Crell s journal that many of Gadolin s research papers were eventually published in an international forum. In Ireland Gadolin worked with the Irish... 

This method works, with minor variations, for any paper money from any country. I stress foreign currency because it s a stupid bird that fouls its own nest. But think of a grand tour of Europe, financed out of your own basement. It would do your head good and besides, they want your trade. 

Notwithstanding the conciseness of this analytical approach, the reader may correctly perceive the method of Occam s Razor, applied to the arcane characteristics of alchemy, rambles around the subject. The author has tried to keep a traditional approach to the issues but the labyrinth ahead will be a challenge with chapter headings that seem more for convenience than classification. Be of good heart because it promises to be a grand tour of life, death, the universe and everything, at least as far as we know it. 

Example 7.4 When biomedical researchers want to visually explore their multidimensional datasets with the most flexibility, are there any visual analysis tools that implement grand tour and projection pursuit ... 

XGobi (Cook et al., 1995) or GGobi (Swayne et al., 2001) is a widely used open-source statistical visualization tool that implements both grand tour and projection pursuit. We can download GGobi at http / www.ggobi.org/, where there are also mtoiials and demonstrations. 

Asimov, D. (1985). The grand tour A tool for viewing multidimensional data. SIAM J. Scie. Statist. Comput.,6(f) 128-143. 

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