hard to find a paper from alfred inselberg online. just some turn arounds so far. parallel coordinate graphics the curses and blessings of dimensionality

For example, in 1917 the physicist Ehrenfest showed that planetary orbits are stable only in dimension 3. (AI)

and all began 1854 when j. snow plotted cholera deaths in london, to find out what caused the epidemic ...

tufte tells the story as an early success story of visualization. (pointer from ai)