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Table of Contents: “…The Majestic Clockwork -- Kepler's law -- The centre of the world -- Isaac Newton's innovations: fluxions -- Unfolding the spectrum -- Gravitation and Principa -- The intellectual dictator -- Challenge in satire -- Newton's absolute space -- Absolute time -- Albert Einstein -- The traveller carries his own space and time -- Relativity is proved -- The new philosophy -- Chapter 8. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Mencken, Memorial service --- Sigmund Freud, from The future of an illusion, translated and edited by James Strachey --- Albert Einstein, Selected writings on religion --- George Orwell, from A clergyman's daughter --- John Betjeman, In Westminster Abbey --- Chapman Cohen, Monism and religion; An old story --- Bettrand Russel, An outline of intellectual rubbish --- Philip Larkin, Aubade; Church going --- Martin Gardner, The wandering Jew and the Second Coming --- Carl Sagan, The demon-haunted world; The God hypothesis --- John Updike, from Roger's version --- J.L. …”

Table of Contents: “…Henri Poincaré, Max Planck, Alfred North Whitehead, Albert Einstein, Sir Arthur Eddington, Niels Bohr, G.H. …”

Table of Contents: “…1.1.2a John Wyclif's De Eucharista Tractatus -- 1.1.3 Abstraction -- 1.1.3a Terrence Deacon's Symbolic Species -- 1.1.3b Bronisław Malinowski's "Context of Situation" -- 1.1.3c Anindilyakwa Kin Classification -- 1.2 Participation -- 1.2.1 Representation -- 1.2.1a Lev Vygotsky's "Inner Speech" -- 1.2.2 Communication -- 1.2.2a The Rule of St Benedict -- 1.2.2b Daphne Koller on MOOCs -- 1.2.3 Interpretation -- 1.2.3a Roland Barthes' "Death of the Author" -- 1.2.3b Hans-Georg Gadamer's Truth and Method -- 1.3 Position -- 1.3.1 Time -- 1.3.1a Albert Einstein's "Illusion of Time"…”
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Table of Contents: “…-- Real estate in the embryo : location, location, location : Karl Ernst von Baer and Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch -- Master of the universe : Herbert Spencer, grand unifier and flirt -- The scandal of the century : George Eliot and her ape -- Bulging forth from nothing : the emergence of "emergence" -- Charlie Darwin shows up late -- The zygote snabs Herbert Spencer -- The embryo goes cosmic -- Einstein turns an axiom inside out -- The man who gave Star Trek its space : Bernhard Riemann -- Albert Einstein's pajamas -- Einstein gives seven ugly ducklings a home : the year of miracles -- Einstein's secret weapon : Aristotle's invention -- The adventures of Einstein's predictions -- The amazing repetition machine -- Forget information : or, How Claude Shannon got it wrong -- The case of the conversational cosmos -- How gossips grows the universe -- The magic onion of meaning -- Doing the glycerin twist : David Bohm -- Benoît Mandelbrot zigs and zags -- It's from bits : the two-bit tarantella -- How math lost its picture-- and how it got them back again -- Fuse and fizz, thou shalt bud : fractals and the bounce from boom to bust -- The sorcery of simple rules -- The Japanese sword maker and the alchemy of iteration -- Gaming your way to fame : John Conway enters the scene -- Axioms in silicon : Conway's game of life -- Good-bye to equations : Stephen Wolfram's new kind of science -- What are the rules of the universe? …”

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Table of Contents: “…Raum: eine methodologische AnnÃÞherung; 1.1 Spatial turns vor dem spatial turn; 1.1.1 Verlust der Mitte; 1.1.2 RealitÃÞt und RelativitÃÞt des Raums; 1.1.2.1 BehÃÞlter oder Ordnung: Isaac Newton versus Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; 1.1.2.2 Form der Anschauung: Immanuel Kant; 1.1.2.3 Feld anstatt Raum: Albert Einstein; 1.1.3 Mythischer Raum: Ernst Cassirer.…”
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